nldcsc-elastic-rules 0.0.8__py3-none-any.whl

nldcsc_elastic_rules/rules/linux/command_and_control_suspicious_network_activity_from_unknown_executable.toml

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+[metadata]
+creation_date = "2023/06/14"
+integration = ["endpoint"]
+maturity = "production"
+updated_date = "2025/02/03"
+
+[transform]
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Listening Ports"
+query = "SELECT pid, address, port, socket, protocol, path FROM listening_ports"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Open Sockets"
+query = "SELECT pid, family, remote_address, remote_port, socket, state FROM process_open_sockets"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Information for a Specific User"
+query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = {{user.name}}"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Investigate the Account Authentication Status"
+query = "SELECT * FROM logged_in_users WHERE user = {{user.name}}"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Running Processes by User"
+query = "SELECT pid, username, name FROM processes p JOIN users u ON u.uid = p.uid ORDER BY username"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Process Info"
+query = "SELECT name, cmdline, parent, path, uid FROM processes"
+
+
+[rule]
+author = ["Elastic"]
+description = """
+This rule monitors for network connectivity to the internet from a previously unknown executable located in a suspicious
+directory. An alert from this rule can indicate the presence of potentially malicious activity, such as the execution of
+unauthorized or suspicious processes attempting to establish connections to unknown or suspicious destinations such as a
+command and control server. Detecting and investigating such behavior can help identify and mitigate potential security
+threats, protecting the system and its data from potential compromise.
+"""
+from = "now-59m"
+index = ["auditbeat-*", "filebeat-*", "packetbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "endgame-*"]
+language = "kuery"
+license = "Elastic License v2"
+name = "Suspicious Network Activity to the Internet by Previously Unknown Executable"
+note = """## Triage and analysis
+
+### Investigating Suspicious Network Activity to the Internet by Previously Unknown Executable
+
+After being installed, malware will often call out to its command and control server to receive further instructions by its operators.
+
+This rule leverages the new terms rule type to detect previously unknown processes, initiating network connections to external IP-addresses. 
+
+> **Note**:
+> This investigation guide uses the [Osquery Markdown Plugin](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/invest-guide-run-osquery.html) introduced in Elastic Stack version 8.5.0. Older Elastic Stack versions will display unrendered Markdown in this guide.
+> This investigation guide uses [placeholder fields](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/osquery-placeholder-fields.html) to dynamically pass alert data into Osquery queries. Placeholder fields were introduced in Elastic Stack version 8.7.0. If you're using Elastic Stack version 8.6.0 or earlier, you'll need to manually adjust this investigation guide's queries to ensure they properly run.
+
+#### Possible investigation steps
+
+- Identify any signs of suspicious network activity or anomalies that may indicate malicious behavior. This could include unexpected traffic patterns or unusual network behavior.
+  - Investigate listening ports and open sockets to look for potential malicious processes, reverse shells or data exfiltration.
+    - $osquery_0
+    - $osquery_1
+- Identify the user account that performed the action, analyze it, and check whether it should perform this kind of action.
+  - $osquery_2
+- Investigate whether the user is currently logged in and active.
+  - $osquery_3
+- Investigate the script execution chain (parent process tree) for unknown processes. Examine their executable files for prevalence and whether they are located in expected locations.
+  - $osquery_4
+  - $osquery_5
+- Investigate other alerts associated with the user/host during the past 48 hours.
+  - If scripts or executables were dropped, retrieve the files and determine if they are malicious:
+    - Use a private sandboxed malware analysis system to perform analysis.
+      - Observe and collect information about the following activities:
+        - Attempts to contact external domains and addresses.
+          - Check if the domain is newly registered or unexpected.
+          - Check the reputation of the domain or IP address.
+        - File access, modification, and creation activities.
+
+### Related rules
+
+- Network Activity Detected via cat - afd04601-12fc-4149-9b78-9c3f8fe45d39
+
+### False positive analysis
+
+- If this activity is related to new benign software installation activity, consider adding exceptions — preferably with a combination of user and command line conditions.
+- Try to understand the context of the execution by thinking about the user, machine, or business purpose. A small number of endpoints, such as servers with unique software, might appear unusual but satisfy a specific business need.
+
+### Response and remediation
+
+- Initiate the incident response process based on the outcome of the triage.
+- Isolate the involved host to prevent further post-compromise behavior.
+- If the triage identified malware, search the environment for additional compromised hosts.
+  - Implement temporary network rules, procedures, and segmentation to contain the malware.
+  - Stop suspicious processes.
+  - Immediately block the identified indicators of compromise (IoCs).
+  - Inspect the affected systems for additional malware backdoors, such as reverse shells, reverse proxies, or droppers, that attackers could use to reinfect the system.
+- Remove and block malicious artifacts identified during triage.
+- Investigate credential exposure on systems compromised or used by the attacker to ensure all compromised accounts are identified. Reset passwords for these accounts and other potentially compromised credentials, such as email, business systems, and web services.
+- Run a full antimalware scan. This may reveal additional artifacts left in the system, persistence mechanisms, and malware components.
+- Determine the initial vector abused by the attacker and take action to prevent reinfection through the same vector.
+- Leverage the incident response data and logging to improve the mean time to detect (MTTD) and the mean time to respond (MTTR).
+"""
+risk_score = 21
+rule_id = "53617418-17b4-4e9c-8a2c-8deb8086ca4b"
+setup = """## Setup
+
+This rule requires data coming in from one of the following integrations:
+- Elastic Defend
+- Auditbeat
+- Filebeat
+- Packetbeat
+
+
+### Elastic Defend Integration Setup
+Elastic Defend is integrated into the Elastic Agent using Fleet. Upon configuration, the integration allows
+the Elastic Agent to monitor events on your host and send data to the Elastic Security app.
+
+#### Prerequisite Requirements:
+- Fleet is required for Elastic Defend.
+- To configure Fleet Server refer to the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/current/fleet-server.html).
+
+#### The following steps should be executed in order to add the Elastic Defend integration on a Linux System:
+- Go to the Kibana home page and click "Add integrations".
+- In the query bar, search for "Elastic Defend" and select the integration to see more details about it.
+- Click "Add Elastic Defend".
+- Configure the integration name and optionally add a description.
+- Select the type of environment you want to protect, either "Traditional Endpoints" or "Cloud Workloads".
+- Select a configuration preset. Each preset comes with different default settings for Elastic Agent, you can further customize these later by configuring the Elastic Defend integration policy. [Helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/configure-endpoint-integration-policy.html).
+- We suggest to select "Complete EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response)" as a configuration setting, that provides "All events; all preventions"
+- Enter a name for the agent policy in "New agent policy name". If other agent policies already exist, you can click the "Existing hosts" tab and select an existing policy instead.
+For more details on Elastic Agent configuration settings, refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.10/agent-policy.html).
+- Click "Save and Continue".
+- To complete the integration, select "Add Elastic Agent to your hosts" and continue to the next section to install the Elastic Agent on your hosts.
+For more details on Elastic Defend refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/install-endpoint.html).
+
+### Auditbeat Setup
+Auditbeat is a lightweight shipper that you can install on your servers to audit the activities of users and processes on your systems. For example, you can use Auditbeat to collect and centralize audit events from the Linux Audit Framework. You can also use Auditbeat to detect changes to critical files, like binaries and configuration files, and identify potential security policy violations.
+
+#### The following steps should be executed in order to add the Auditbeat on a Linux System:
+- Elastic provides repositories available for APT and YUM-based distributions. Note that we provide binary packages, but no source packages.
+- To install the APT and YUM repositories follow the setup instructions in this [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/setup-repositories.html).
+- To run Auditbeat on Docker follow the setup instructions in the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/running-on-docker.html).
+- To run Auditbeat on Kubernetes follow the setup instructions in the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html).
+- For complete “Setup and Run Auditbeat” information refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/setting-up-and-running.html).
+
+### Filebeat Setup
+Filebeat is a lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log data. Installed as an agent on your servers, Filebeat monitors the log files or locations that you specify, collects log events, and forwards them either to Elasticsearch or Logstash for indexing.
+
+#### The following steps should be executed in order to add the Filebeat on a Linux System:
+- Elastic provides repositories available for APT and YUM-based distributions. Note that we provide binary packages, but no source packages.
+- To install the APT and YUM repositories follow the setup instructions in this [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/setup-repositories.html).
+- To run Filebeat on Docker follow the setup instructions in the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/running-on-docker.html).
+- To run Filebeat on Kubernetes follow the setup instructions in the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html).
+- For quick start information for Filebeat refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/8.11/filebeat-installation-configuration.html).
+- For complete “Setup and Run Filebeat” information refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/setting-up-and-running.html).
+
+### Packetbeat Setup
+Packetbeat is a real-time network packet analyzer that you can use for application monitoring, performance analytics, and threat detection. Packetbeat works by capturing the network traffic between your application servers, decoding the application layer protocols (HTTP, MySQL, Redis, and so on), correlating the requests with the responses, and recording the interesting fields for each transaction.
+
+#### The following steps should be executed in order to add the Packetbeat on a  Linux System:
+- Elastic provides repositories available for APT and YUM-based distributions. Note that we provide binary packages, but no source packages.
+- To install the APT and YUM repositories follow the setup instructions in this [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/setup-repositories.html).
+- To run Packetbeat on Docker follow the setup instructions in the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/running-on-docker.html).
+- For quick start information for Packetbeat refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/packetbeat-installation-configuration.html).
+- For complete “Setup and Run Packetbeat” information refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/setting-up-and-running.html).
+"""
+severity = "low"
+tags = [
+    "Domain: Endpoint",
+    "OS: Linux",
+    "Use Case: Threat Detection",
+    "Tactic: Command and Control",
+    "Data Source: Elastic Endgame",
+    "Data Source: Elastic Defend",
+    "Resources: Investigation Guide",
+]
+timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
+type = "new_terms"
+
+query = '''
+host.os.type:linux and event.category:network and event.action:(connection_attempted or ipv4_connection_attempt_event) and
+process.executable : (
+  /etc/crontab or /etc/rc.local or ./* or /boot/* or /dev/shm/* or /etc/cron.*/* or /etc/init.d/* or /etc/rc*.d/* or
+  /etc/update-motd.d/* or /home/*/.* or /tmp/* or /usr/lib/update-notifier/* or /var/log/* or /var/tmp/*
+) and process.name : * and
+not (
+  process.executable : (
+    /tmp/newroot/* or /tmp/snap.rootfs* or /etc/cron.hourly/BitdefenderRedline or /tmp/go-build* or /srv/snp/docker/* or
+    /run/containerd/* or /tmp/.mount* or /run/k3s/containerd/* or /tmp/selenium* or /tmp/tmp.*/juliainstaller or
+    /tmp/.criu.mntns* or /home/*/.local/share/containers/* or /etc/update-motd.d/*
+  ) or
+  source.ip:(10.0.0.0/8 or 127.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16) or
+  process.name : (
+    apt or chrome or curl or dnf or dockerd or dpkg or firefox-bin or git-remote-https or java or kite-update or
+    kited or node or rpm or saml2aws or selenium-manager or solana-validator or wget or yum or ansible* or aws* or
+    php* or pip* or python* or steam* or terraform* or filebeat or apk or cursor or http
+  ) or
+  destination.ip:(
+    0.0.0.0 or 10.0.0.0/8 or 100.64.0.0/10 or 127.0.0.0/8 or 169.254.0.0/16 or 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.0.0.0/24 or
+    192.0.0.0/29 or 192.0.0.10/32 or 192.0.0.170/32 or 192.0.0.171/32 or 192.0.0.8/32 or 192.0.0.9/32 or 192.0.2.0/24 or
+    192.168.0.0/16 or 192.175.48.0/24 or 192.31.196.0/24 or 192.52.193.0/24 or 192.88.99.0/24 or 198.18.0.0/15 or
+    198.51.100.0/24 or 203.0.113.0/24 or 224.0.0.0/4 or 240.0.0.0/4 or "::1" or "FE80::/10" or "FF00::/8"
+  )
+)
+'''
+
+[[rule.threat]]
+framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
+
+[[rule.threat.technique]]
+id = "T1071"
+name = "Application Layer Protocol"
+reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1071/"
+
+[rule.threat.tactic]
+id = "TA0011"
+name = "Command and Control"
+reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0011/"
+
+[rule.new_terms]
+field = "new_terms_fields"
+value = ["process.executable"]
+
+[[rule.new_terms.history_window_start]]
+field = "history_window_start"
+value = "now-20d"

nldcsc_elastic_rules/rules/linux/command_and_control_telegram_api_request.toml

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+[metadata]
+creation_date = "2025/04/29"
+integration = ["endpoint", "crowdstrike"]
+maturity = "production"
+updated_date = "2025/10/17"
+
+[rule]
+author = ["Elastic"]
+description = """
+This rule detects when a process executes the curl or wget command with an argument that includes the
+api.telegram.org domain. This may indicate command and control behavior.
+"""
+from = "now-9m"
+index = ["logs-endpoint.events.process*", "logs-crowdstrike.fdr*"]
+language = "eql"
+license = "Elastic License v2"
+name = "Linux Telegram API Request"
+note = """ ## Triage and analysis
+
+> **Disclaimer**:
+> This investigation guide was created using generative AI technology and has been reviewed to improve its accuracy and relevance. While every effort has been made to ensure its quality, we recommend validating the content and adapting it to suit your specific environment and operational needs.
+
+### Investigating Linux Telegram API Request
+
+Telegram's API allows applications to interact with its messaging platform, often used for legitimate automation and communication tasks. However, adversaries may exploit this by using commands like `curl` or `wget` to communicate with Telegram's API for command and control purposes. The detection rule identifies such suspicious activity by monitoring for these commands accessing the Telegram API, indicating potential misuse.
+
+### Possible investigation steps
+
+- Review the process details to confirm the execution of the curl or wget command with the api.telegram.org domain in the command line, as indicated by the process.command_line field.
+- Investigate the user account associated with the process to determine if the activity aligns with expected behavior or if the account may be compromised.
+- Check the network activity logs to identify any additional connections to api.telegram.org or other suspicious domains, which may indicate further command and control communication.
+- Analyze the parent process of the detected curl or wget command to understand how the process was initiated and if it was triggered by another suspicious activity.
+- Examine the system for any other indicators of compromise, such as unusual file modifications or additional unauthorized processes, to assess the scope of potential malicious activity.
+
+### False positive analysis
+
+- Legitimate automation scripts or applications may use curl or wget to interact with Telegram's API for non-malicious purposes. Review the context and purpose of these scripts to determine if they are authorized.
+- System administrators or developers might use curl or wget for testing or maintenance tasks involving Telegram's API. Verify if these activities are part of routine operations and consider excluding them if they are deemed safe.
+- Monitoring tools or integrations that rely on Telegram for notifications could trigger this rule. Identify these tools and add exceptions for their known processes to prevent unnecessary alerts.
+- If a specific user or service account frequently triggers this rule due to legitimate use, consider creating an exception for that account to reduce noise while maintaining security oversight.
+
+### Response and remediation
+
+- Immediately isolate the affected system from the network to prevent further communication with the Telegram API and potential data exfiltration.
+- Terminate any suspicious processes identified as using curl or wget to interact with api.telegram.org to halt ongoing malicious activities.
+- Conduct a thorough review of the affected system's process logs and network connections to identify any additional indicators of compromise or related malicious activity.
+- Remove any unauthorized scripts or binaries that may have been used to automate the interaction with the Telegram API.
+- Reset credentials and review access permissions for any accounts that were active on the affected system to prevent unauthorized access.
+- Update and patch the affected system to the latest security standards to mitigate vulnerabilities that could be exploited in similar attacks.
+- Escalate the incident to the security operations center (SOC) or incident response team for further investigation and to determine if additional systems are affected.
+"""
+risk_score = 21
+rule_id = "af1e36fe-0abd-4463-b5ec-4e276dec0b26"
+setup = """## Setup
+
+This rule requires data coming in from Elastic Defend.
+
+### Elastic Defend Integration Setup
+Elastic Defend is integrated into the Elastic Agent using Fleet. Upon configuration, the integration allows the Elastic Agent to monitor events on your host and send data to the Elastic Security app.
+
+#### Prerequisite Requirements:
+- Fleet is required for Elastic Defend.
+- To configure Fleet Server refer to the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/current/fleet-server.html).
+
+#### The following steps should be executed in order to add the Elastic Defend integration on a Linux System:
+- Go to the Kibana home page and click "Add integrations".
+- In the query bar, search for "Elastic Defend" and select the integration to see more details about it.
+- Click "Add Elastic Defend".
+- Configure the integration name and optionally add a description.
+- Select the type of environment you want to protect, either "Traditional Endpoints" or "Cloud Workloads".
+- Select a configuration preset. Each preset comes with different default settings for Elastic Agent, you can further customize these later by configuring the Elastic Defend integration policy. [Helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/configure-endpoint-integration-policy.html).
+- We suggest selecting "Complete EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response)" as a configuration setting, that provides "All events; all preventions"
+- Enter a name for the agent policy in "New agent policy name". If other agent policies already exist, you can click the "Existing hosts" tab and select an existing policy instead.
+For more details on Elastic Agent configuration settings, refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.10/agent-policy.html).
+- Click "Save and Continue".
+- To complete the integration, select "Add Elastic Agent to your hosts" and continue to the next section to install the Elastic Agent on your hosts.
+For more details on Elastic Defend refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/install-endpoint.html).
+
+Elastic Defend integration does not collect environment variable logging by default.
+In order to capture this behavior, this rule requires a specific configuration option set within the advanced settings of the Elastic Defend integration.
+ #### To set up environment variable capture for an Elastic Agent policy:
+- Go to “Security → Manage → Policies”.
+- Select an “Elastic Agent policy”.
+- Click “Show advanced settings”.
+- Scroll down or search for “linux.advanced.capture_env_vars”.
+- Enter the names of environment variables you want to capture, separated by commas.
+- For this rule the linux.advanced.capture_env_vars variable should be set to "HTTP_PROXY,HTTPS_PROXY,ALL_PROXY".
+- Click “Save”.
+After saving the integration change, the Elastic Agents running this policy will be updated and the rule will function properly.
+For more information on capturing environment variables refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/environment-variable-capture.html).
+"""
+severity = "low"
+tags = [
+  "Domain: Endpoint",
+  "OS: Linux",
+  "Use Case: Threat Detection",
+  "Tactic: Command and Control",
+  "Data Source: Elastic Defend",
+  "Resources: Investigation Guide",
+  "Data Source: Crowdstrike",
+]
+timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
+type = "eql"
+query = '''
+process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "start" and event.action in ("exec", "ProcessRollup2") and
+process.name in ("curl", "wget") and process.command_line like "*api.telegram.org*"
+'''
+
+[[rule.threat]]
+framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
+
+  [rule.threat.tactic]
+  name = "Command and Control"
+  id = "TA0011"
+  reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0011/"
+
+  [[rule.threat.technique]]
+  name = "Application Layer Protocol"
+  id = "T1071"
+  reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1071/"
+
+    [[rule.threat.technique.subtechnique]]
+    name = "Web Protocols"
+    id = "T1071.001"
+    reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1071/001/"

nldcsc_elastic_rules/rules/linux/command_and_control_tunneling_via_earthworm.toml

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+[metadata]
+creation_date = "2021/04/12"
+integration = ["endpoint", "crowdstrike", "sentinel_one_cloud_funnel"]
+maturity = "production"
+updated_date = "2025/03/20"
+
+[transform]
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Listening Ports"
+query = "SELECT pid, address, port, socket, protocol, path FROM listening_ports"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Open Sockets"
+query = "SELECT pid, family, remote_address, remote_port, socket, state FROM process_open_sockets"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Information for a Specific User"
+query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = {{user.name}}"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Investigate the Account Authentication Status"
+query = "SELECT * FROM logged_in_users WHERE user = {{user.name}}"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Running Processes by User"
+query = "SELECT pid, username, name FROM processes p JOIN users u ON u.uid = p.uid ORDER BY username"
+
+[[transform.osquery]]
+label = "Osquery - Retrieve Process Info"
+query = "SELECT name, cmdline, parent, path, uid FROM processes"
+
+
+[rule]
+author = ["Elastic"]
+description = """
+Identifies the execution of the EarthWorm tunneler. Adversaries may tunnel network communications to and from a victim
+system within a separate protocol to avoid detection and network filtering, or to enable access to otherwise unreachable
+systems.
+"""
+from = "now-9m"
+index = [
+    "auditbeat-*",
+    "endgame-*",
+    "logs-crowdstrike.fdr*",
+    "logs-endpoint.events.process*",
+    "logs-sentinel_one_cloud_funnel.*",
+]
+language = "eql"
+license = "Elastic License v2"
+name = "Potential Protocol Tunneling via EarthWorm"
+note = """## Triage and analysis
+
+### Investigating Potential Protocol Tunneling via EarthWorm
+
+Attackers can leverage `earthworm` to clandestinely tunnel network communications and evade security measures, potentially gaining unauthorized access to sensitive systems.
+
+This rule looks for several command line arguments that are consistent with `earthworm` tunneling behavior. 
+
+> **Note**:
+> This investigation guide uses the [Osquery Markdown Plugin](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/invest-guide-run-osquery.html) introduced in Elastic Stack version 8.5.0. Older Elastic Stack versions will display unrendered Markdown in this guide.
+> This investigation guide uses [placeholder fields](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/osquery-placeholder-fields.html) to dynamically pass alert data into Osquery queries. Placeholder fields were introduced in Elastic Stack version 8.7.0. If you're using Elastic Stack version 8.6.0 or earlier, you'll need to manually adjust this investigation guide's queries to ensure they properly run.
+
+#### Possible investigation steps
+
+- Identify any signs of suspicious network activity or anomalies that may indicate protocol tunneling. This could include unexpected traffic patterns or unusual network behavior.
+  - Investigate listening ports and open sockets to look for potential protocol tunneling, reverse shells, or data exfiltration.
+    - $osquery_0
+    - $osquery_1
+- Identify the user account that performed the action, analyze it, and check whether it should perform this kind of action.
+  - $osquery_2
+- Investigate whether the user is currently logged in and active.
+  - $osquery_3
+- Investigate the script execution chain (parent process tree) for unknown processes. Examine their executable files for prevalence and whether they are located in expected locations.
+  - $osquery_4
+  - $osquery_5
+- Investigate other alerts associated with the user/host during the past 48 hours.
+  - If scripts or executables were dropped, retrieve the files and determine if they are malicious:
+    - Use a private sandboxed malware analysis system to perform analysis.
+      - Observe and collect information about the following activities:
+        - Attempts to contact external domains and addresses.
+          - Check if the domain is newly registered or unexpected.
+          - Check the reputation of the domain or IP address.
+        - File access, modification, and creation activities.
+
+### Related rules
+
+- Potential Protocol Tunneling via Chisel Client - 3f12325a-4cc6-410b-8d4c-9fbbeb744cfd
+- Potential Protocol Tunneling via Chisel Server - ac8805f6-1e08-406c-962e-3937057fa86f
+- Potential Linux Tunneling and/or Port Forwarding - 6ee947e9-de7e-4281-a55d-09289bdf947e
+
+### False positive analysis
+
+- If this activity is related to new benign software installation activity, consider adding exceptions — preferably with a combination of user and command line conditions.
+- If this activity is related to a system administrator or developer who uses port tunneling for benign purposes, consider adding exceptions for specific user accounts or hosts. 
+- Try to understand the context of the execution by thinking about the user, machine, or business purpose. A small number of endpoints, such as servers with unique software, might appear unusual but satisfy a specific business need.
+
+### Response and remediation
+
+- Initiate the incident response process based on the outcome of the triage.
+- Isolate the involved host to prevent further post-compromise behavior.
+- If the triage identified malware, search the environment for additional compromised hosts.
+  - Implement temporary network rules, procedures, and segmentation to contain the malware.
+  - Stop suspicious processes.
+  - Immediately block the identified indicators of compromise (IoCs).
+  - Inspect the affected systems for additional malware backdoors, such as reverse shells, reverse proxies, or droppers, that attackers could use to reinfect the system.
+- Remove and block malicious artifacts identified during triage.
+- Investigate credential exposure on systems compromised or used by the attacker to ensure all compromised accounts are identified. Reset passwords for these accounts and other potentially compromised credentials, such as email, business systems, and web services.
+- Run a full antimalware scan. This may reveal additional artifacts left in the system, persistence mechanisms, and malware components.
+- Determine the initial vector abused by the attacker and take action to prevent reinfection through the same vector.
+- Leverage the incident response data and logging to improve the mean time to detect (MTTD) and the mean time to respond (MTTR).
+"""
+references = [
+    "http://rootkiter.com/EarthWorm/",
+    "https://decoded.avast.io/luigicamastra/apt-group-targeting-governmental-agencies-in-east-asia/",
+]
+risk_score = 47
+rule_id = "9f1c4ca3-44b5-481d-ba42-32dc215a2769"
+setup = """## Setup
+
+This rule requires data coming in either from Elastic Defend, or Auditbeat integration.
+
+### Elastic Defend Integration Setup
+Elastic Defend is integrated into the Elastic Agent using Fleet. Upon configuration, the integration allows the Elastic Agent to monitor events on your host and send data to the Elastic Security app.
+
+#### Prerequisite Requirements:
+- Fleet is required for Elastic Defend.
+- To configure Fleet Server refer to the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/current/fleet-server.html).
+
+#### The following steps should be executed in order to add the Elastic Defend integration on a Linux System:
+- Go to the Kibana home page and click "Add integrations".
+- In the query bar, search for "Elastic Defend" and select the integration to see more details about it.
+- Click "Add Elastic Defend".
+- Configure the integration name and optionally add a description.
+- Select the type of environment you want to protect, either "Traditional Endpoints" or "Cloud Workloads".
+- Select a configuration preset. Each preset comes with different default settings for Elastic Agent, you can further customize these later by configuring the Elastic Defend integration policy. [Helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/configure-endpoint-integration-policy.html).
+- We suggest selecting "Complete EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response)" as a configuration setting, that provides "All events; all preventions"
+- Enter a name for the agent policy in "New agent policy name". If other agent policies already exist, you can click the "Existing hosts" tab and select an existing policy instead.
+For more details on Elastic Agent configuration settings, refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.10/agent-policy.html).
+- Click "Save and Continue".
+- To complete the integration, select "Add Elastic Agent to your hosts" and continue to the next section to install the Elastic Agent on your hosts.
+For more details on Elastic Defend refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/install-endpoint.html).
+
+### Auditbeat Setup
+Auditbeat is a lightweight shipper that you can install on your servers to audit the activities of users and processes on your systems. For example, you can use Auditbeat to collect and centralize audit events from the Linux Audit Framework. You can also use Auditbeat to detect changes to critical files, like binaries and configuration files, and identify potential security policy violations.
+
+#### The following steps should be executed in order to add the Auditbeat on a Linux System:
+- Elastic provides repositories available for APT and YUM-based distributions. Note that we provide binary packages, but no source packages.
+- To install the APT and YUM repositories follow the setup instructions in this [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/setup-repositories.html).
+- To run Auditbeat on Docker follow the setup instructions in the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/running-on-docker.html).
+- To run Auditbeat on Kubernetes follow the setup instructions in the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html).
+- For complete “Setup and Run Auditbeat” information refer to the [helper guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/setting-up-and-running.html).
+
+#### Custom Ingest Pipeline
+For versions <8.2, you need to add a custom ingest pipeline to populate `event.ingested` with @timestamp for non-elastic-agent indexes, like auditbeats/filebeat/winlogbeat etc. For more details to add a custom ingest pipeline refer to the [guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/current/data-streams-pipeline-tutorial.html).
+"""
+severity = "medium"
+tags = [
+    "Domain: Endpoint",
+    "OS: Linux",
+    "Use Case: Threat Detection",
+    "Tactic: Command and Control",
+    "Data Source: Elastic Endgame",
+    "Data Source: Elastic Defend",
+    "Data Source: Crowdstrike",
+    "Data Source: SentinelOne",
+    "Resources: Investigation Guide",
+]
+timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
+type = "eql"
+
+query = '''
+process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "start" and
+ process.args : "-s" and process.args : "-d" and process.args : "rssocks"
+'''
+
+
+[[rule.threat]]
+framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
+[[rule.threat.technique]]
+id = "T1572"
+name = "Protocol Tunneling"
+reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1572/"
+
+
+[rule.threat.tactic]
+id = "TA0011"
+name = "Command and Control"
+reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0011/"
+