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Setuid and Setgid

Status
test
Severity
low
Log source
category process_creation, product linux
Author
Ömer Günal
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects suspicious change of file privileges with chown and chmod commands

Known false positives

  • Legitimate administration activities

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege Escalation

Telemetry coverage

PlatformRecord / event type
LinuxEvent ID 1: Process Create

Rule body

title: Setuid and Setgid
id: c21c4eaa-ba2e-419a-92b2-8371703cbe21
status: test
description: Detects suspicious change of file privileges with chown and chmod commands
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1548.001/T1548.001.md
author: Ömer Günal
date: 2020-06-16
modified: 2022-10-05
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1548.001
logsource:
    product: linux
    category: process_creation
detection:
    selection_root:
        CommandLine|contains: 'chown root'
    selection_perm:
        CommandLine|contains:
            - ' chmod u+s'
            - ' chmod g+s'
    condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate administration activities
level: low

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

all of selection_*

Stage 1: selection_root

selection_root:
    CommandLine|contains: 'chown root'

Stage 2: selection_perm

selection_perm:
    CommandLine|contains:
        - ' chmod u+s'
        - ' chmod g+s'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
CommandLinematch
  • chmod g+s
  • chmod u+s
  • chown root
field:"CommandLine" kind:match