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SSH - Potential Brute Force

Severity
low
Time window
4h
Group by
Computer, IPAddress, _ResourceId, ip, user
Source
github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel

'Identifies an IP address that had 15 failed attempts to sign in via SSH in a 4 hour block during a 24 hour time period. Please note that entity mapping for arrays is not supported, so when there is a single value in an array, we will pull that value from the array as a single string to populate the entity to support entity mapping features within Sentinel. Additionally, if the array is multivalued, we will input a string to indicate this with a unique hash so that matching will not occur. As an example - ComputerList is an array that we check for a single value and write that into the HostName field for use in the entity mapping within Sentinel.'

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential Access

Rule body

id: e1ce0eab-10d1-4aae-863f-9a383345ba88
name: SSH - Potential Brute Force
description: |
  'Identifies an IP address that had 15 failed attempts to sign in via SSH in a 4 hour block during a 24 hour time period.
   Please note that entity mapping for arrays is not supported, so when there is a single value in an array, we will pull that value from the array as a single string to populate the entity to support entity mapping features within Sentinel. Additionally, if the array is multivalued, we will input a string to indicate this with a unique hash so that matching will not occur.
   As an example - ComputerList is an array that we check for a single value and write that into the HostName field for use in the entity mapping within Sentinel.'
severity: Low
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: Syslog
    dataTypes:
      - Syslog
  - connectorId: SyslogAma
    dataTypes:
      - Syslog
queryFrequency: 1d
queryPeriod: 1d
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
tactics:
  - CredentialAccess
relevantTechniques:
  - T1110
query: |
  let threshold = 15;
  Syslog
  | where ProcessName =~ "sshd"
  | where SyslogMessage contains "Failed password for invalid user"
  | parse kind=relaxed SyslogMessage with * "invalid user " user " from " ip " port" port " ssh2" *
  // using distinct below as it has been seen that Syslog can duplicate entries depending on implementation
  | distinct TimeGenerated, Computer, user, ip, port, SyslogMessage, _ResourceId
  | summarize EventTimes = make_list(TimeGenerated), PerHourCount = count() by bin(TimeGenerated,4h), ip, Computer, user, _ResourceId
  | where PerHourCount > threshold
  | mvexpand EventTimes
  | extend EventTimes = tostring(EventTimes)
  | summarize StartTime = min(EventTimes), EndTime = max(EventTimes), UserList = make_set(user), ComputerList = make_set(Computer), ResourceIdList = make_set(_ResourceId), sum(PerHourCount) by IPAddress = ip
  // bringing through single computer and user if array only has 1, otherwise, referencing the column and hashing the ComputerList or UserList so we don't get accidental entity matches when reviewing alerts
  | extend HostName = iff(array_length(ComputerList) == 1, tostring(ComputerList[0]), strcat("SeeComputerListField","_", tostring(hash(tostring(ComputerList)))))
  | extend Account = iff(array_length(ComputerList) == 1, tostring(UserList[0]), strcat("SeeUserListField","_", tostring(hash(tostring(UserList)))))
  | extend ResourceId = iff(array_length(ResourceIdList) == 1, tostring(ResourceIdList[0]), strcat("SeeResourceIdListField","_", tostring(hash(tostring(ResourceIdList)))))
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: Account
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: IPAddress
  - entityType: Host
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: HostName
        columnName: HostName
  - entityType: AzureResource
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: ResourceId
        columnName: ResourceId
version: 1.1.5
kind: Scheduled

Stages and Predicates

Parameters

let threshold = 15;

Stage 1: source

Syslog

Stage 2: where

| where ProcessName =~ "sshd"

Stage 3: where

| where SyslogMessage contains "Failed password for invalid user"

Stage 4: parse

| parse kind=relaxed SyslogMessage with * "invalid user " user " from " ip " port" port " ssh2" *

Stage 5: distinct

| distinct TimeGenerated, Computer, user, ip, port, SyslogMessage, _ResourceId

Stage 6: summarize

| summarize EventTimes = make_list(TimeGenerated), PerHourCount = count() by bin(TimeGenerated,4h), ip, Computer, user, _ResourceId

Stage 7: where

| where PerHourCount > threshold

Stage 8: mv-expand

| mvexpand EventTimes

Stage 9: extend

| extend EventTimes = tostring(EventTimes)

Stage 10: summarize

| summarize StartTime = min(EventTimes), EndTime = max(EventTimes), UserList = make_set(user), ComputerList = make_set(Computer), ResourceIdList = make_set(_ResourceId), sum(PerHourCount) by IPAddress = ip

Stage 11: extend (3 consecutive steps)

| extend HostName = iff(array_length(ComputerList) == 1, tostring(ComputerList[0]), strcat("SeeComputerListField","_", tostring(hash(tostring(ComputerList)))))
| extend Account = iff(array_length(ComputerList) == 1, tostring(UserList[0]), strcat("SeeUserListField","_", tostring(hash(tostring(UserList)))))
| extend ResourceId = iff(array_length(ResourceIdList) == 1, tostring(ResourceIdList[0]), strcat("SeeResourceIdListField","_", tostring(hash(tostring(ResourceIdList)))))
HostName =
ifComputerList == 1tostring(ComputerList[0])
elsestrcat("SeeComputerListField", "_", tostring(hash(tostring(ComputerList))))

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Output fields

These fields are emitted when the rule matches.

FieldSource
ComputerListsummarize
EndTimesummarize
IPAddresssummarize
ResourceIdListsummarize
StartTimesummarize
UserListsummarize
HostNameextend
Accountextend
ResourceIdextend