LoFP / legitimate use of trufflehog by security teams for credential scanning.

Techniques

• t1003
• t1555

Sample rules

PUA - AWS TruffleHog Execution

• source: sigma
• technicques:
  • t1003
  • t1555

Description

Detects the execution of TruffleHog, a popular open-source tool used for scanning repositories for secrets and sensitive information, within an AWS environment. It has been reported to be used by threat actors for credential harvesting. All detections should be investigated to determine if the usage is authorized by security teams or potentially malicious.

Detection logic

condition: selection
selection:
  userAgent: TruffleHog