LoFP LoFP / legitimate system administrators and automated scripts may access shell history files for auditing or troubleshooting purposes. filter based on known administrative accounts and approved tooling in your environment.

Techniques

Sample rules

Linux Shell History Access Via Command Line Utility

Description

The following analytic detects attempts to read shell history files (bash, zsh, fish, etc.). A history file is a log file that records all the commands executed in a shell on a Linux or Unix-based operating system. A malicious actor who gains access to a user’s shell history file can potentially obtain sensitive information and use it to compromise the user’s system and data.

Detection logic


| tstats `security_content_summariesonly`
  count min(_time) as firstTime
        max(_time) as lastTime

from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where

Processes.process_name IN (
    "cat",
    "fmt",
    "head",
    "less",
    "more",
    "nano",
    "sort",
    "tail",
    "uniq",
    "vi",
    "vim"
)
Processes.process IN (
    "*.bash_history*",
    "*.history*",
    "*.sh_history*",
    "*.zhistory*",
    "*.zsh_history*",
    "*fish_history*"
)

by Processes.process Processes.vendor_product Processes.user_id Processes.process_hash
   Processes.parent_process_name Processes.parent_process_exec Processes.action Processes.dest
   Processes.process_current_directory Processes.process_path Processes.process_integrity_level
   Processes.original_file_name Processes.parent_process Processes.parent_process_path
   Processes.parent_process_guid Processes.parent_process_id Processes.process_guid
   Processes.process_id Processes.user Processes.process_name


| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)`

| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`

| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`

| `linux_shell_history_access_via_command_line_utility_filter`