Masquerading as Linux Crond Process

Masquerading occurs when the name or location of an executable, legitimate or malicious, is manipulated or abused for the sake of evading defenses and observation. Several different variations of this technique have been observed.

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 1title: Masquerading as Linux Crond Process
 2id: 9d4548fa-bba0-4e88-bd66-5d5bf516cda0
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5  Masquerading occurs when the name or location of an executable, legitimate or malicious, is manipulated or abused for the sake of evading defenses and observation.
 6  Several different variations of this technique have been observed.  
 7references:
 8    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/8a82e9b66a5b4f4bc5b91089e9f24e0544f20ad7/atomics/T1036.003/T1036.003.md#atomic-test-2---masquerading-as-linux-crond-process
 9author: Timur Zinniatullin, oscd.community
10date: 2019-10-21
11modified: 2023-08-22
12tags:
13    - attack.defense-evasion
14    - attack.t1036.003
15logsource:
16    product: linux
17    service: auditd
18detection:
19    selection:
20        type: 'execve'
21        a0: 'cp'
22        a1: '/bin/sh'
23        a2|endswith: '/crond'
24    condition: selection
25level: medium

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