Search Open Websites/Domains: Code Repositories T1593.003

Tactic: Reconnaissance

Adversaries may search public code repositories for information about victims that can be used during targeting. Victims may store code in repositories on various third-party websites such as GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge, and BitBucket. Users typically interact with code repositories through a web application or command-line utilities such as git.

Events covered

2 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEventTitle
SysmonEvent ID 1Process creation
Sysmon-for-LinuxEvent ID 1Process Create

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 2 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (3 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
CommandLine2contains 2 clone , cve-, eternal-blue
Image2ends_with 2/git, \git-remote-https.exe, \git.exe
OriginalFileName1eq 1git.exe

Top indicator values (20 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
CommandLinecontains
clone
22
CommandLinecontains
cve-
22
CommandLinecontains
eternal-blue
22
CommandLinecontains
eternalblue
22
CommandLinecontains
exploit
22
CommandLinecontains
invoke-
26
CommandLinecontains
log4shell
22
CommandLinecontains
ms17-
22
CommandLinecontains
poc-
22
CommandLinecontains
proofofconcept
22
CommandLinecontains
proxyshell
22
CommandLinecontains
remotecodeexecution
22
CommandLinecontains
vulnerability
22
CommandLinecontains
vulns
22
CommandLinecontains
git-remote-https
1
CommandLinecontains
rce
1
Imageends_with
/git
1
Imageends_with
\git-remote-https.exe
1
Imageends_with
\git.exe
1
OriginalFileNameeq
git.exe
1

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

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Sigma 2 rules