Execution Guardrails T1480

Tactic: Stealth

Adversaries may use execution guardrails to constrain execution or actions based on adversary supplied and environment specific conditions that are expected to be present on the target. Guardrails ensure that a payload only executes against an intended target and reduces collateral damage from an adversary’s campaign. Values an adversary can provide about a target system or environment to use as guardrails may include specific network share names, attached physical devices, files, joined Active Directory (AD) domains, and local/external IP addresses.

Events covered

1 catalog event is tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEventTitle
Linux-AuditdEvent ID 1327PROCTITLE

Authoring guide

These 2 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.

Fields filtered most (7 distinct)

These fields appear most often in rule filters.

FieldRulesHowSample values
EventOriginalType1eq 1GovernanceApiPolicyOperation
EventType1eq 1CreateDlpPolicy, DeleteDlpPolicy, UpdateDlpPolicy
PropertyCollection1contains 1createdlppolicy, deletedlppolicy, updatedlppolicy
TimeGenerated1cross_field_compare 1ignore_time
ignore_time1is_null 1
proctitle1contains 1, in 1*--yolo*, *-y *, --dangerously-skip-permissions
sourcetype1eq 1auditd

Top indicator values (14 distinct)

These values appear most often in rule predicates.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
EventOriginalTypeeq
GovernanceApiPolicyOperation
1
EventTypeeq
CreateDlpPolicy
1
EventTypeeq
DeleteDlpPolicy
1
EventTypeeq
UpdateDlpPolicy
1
PropertyCollectioncontains
createdlppolicy
1
PropertyCollectioncontains
deletedlppolicy
1
PropertyCollectioncontains
updatedlppolicy
1
TimeGeneratedcross_field_compare
ignore_time
1
proctitlecontains
--dangerously-skip-permissions
1
proctitlecontains
claude
1
proctitlecontains
gemini
1
proctitlein
*--yolo*
1
proctitlein
*-y *
1
sourcetypeeq
auditd
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Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

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Splunk 1 rule

Kusto 1 rule