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Suspicious Reverse Shell Command Line
Detects suspicious shell commands or program code that may be executed or used in command line to establish a reverse shell
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Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Created Tue Apr 02Updated Sat Nov 27738d9bcf-6999-4fdb-b4ac-3033037db8ablinux
Log Source
Linux
ProductLinux← raw: linux
Detection Logic
Detection Logic1 selector
detection:
keywords:
- 'BEGIN {s = "/inet/tcp/0/'
- 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/'
- 'bash -i >& /dev/udp/'
- 'sh -i >$ /dev/udp/'
- 'sh -i >$ /dev/tcp/'
- '&& while read line 0<&5; do'
- '/bin/bash -c exec 5<>/dev/tcp/'
- '/bin/bash -c exec 5<>/dev/udp/'
- 'nc -e /bin/sh '
- '/bin/sh | nc'
- 'rm -f backpipe; mknod /tmp/backpipe p && nc '
- ';socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname("tcp"));if(connect(S,sockaddr_in($p,inet_aton($i))))'
- ';STDIN->fdopen($c,r);$~->fdopen($c,w);system$_ while<>;'
- '/bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3'
- 'uname -a; w; id; /bin/bash -i'
- '$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2); $stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length); $stream.Flush()};'
- ';os.dup2(s.fileno(),0);os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);os.putenv(''HISTFILE'',''/dev/null'');'
- '.to_i;exec sprintf("/bin/sh -i <&%d >&%d 2>&%d",f,f,f)'
- ';while(cmd=c.gets);IO.popen(cmd,"r"){|io|c.print'
- 'socat exec:''bash -li'',pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane tcp:'
- 'rm -f /tmp/p; mknod /tmp/p p &&'
- ' | /bin/bash | telnet '
- ',echo=0,raw tcp-listen:'
- 'nc -lvvp '
- 'xterm -display 1'
condition: keywordsFalse Positives
Unknown
False positive likelihood has not been assessed. Additional context may be needed during triage.
References
MITRE ATT&CK
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Rule Metadata
Rule ID
738d9bcf-6999-4fdb-b4ac-3033037db8ab
Status
test
Level
high
Type
Detection
Created
Tue Apr 02
Modified
Sat Nov 27
Path
rules/linux/builtin/lnx_shell_susp_rev_shells.yml
Raw Tags
attack.executionattack.t1059.004