OS Architecture Discovery Via Grep

Detects the use of grep to identify information about the operating system architecture. Often combined beforehand with the execution of "uname" or "cat /proc/cpuinfo"

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 1title: OS Architecture Discovery Via Grep
 2id: d27ab432-2199-483f-a297-03633c05bae6
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5        Detects the use of grep to identify information about the operating system architecture. Often combined beforehand with the execution of "uname" or "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
 6references:
 7    - https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2023/05/gobrat.html
 8    - https://jstnk9.github.io/jstnk9/research/GobRAT-Malware/
 9    - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/60bcd645450e4c846238cf0e7226dc40c84c96eba99f6b2cffcd0ab4a391c8b3/detection
10    - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/3e44c807a25a56f4068b5b8186eee5002eed6f26d665a8b791c472ad154585d1/detection
11author: Joseliyo Sanchez, @Joseliyo_Jstnk
12date: 2023/06/02
13tags:
14    - attack.discovery
15    - attack.t1082
16logsource:
17    category: process_creation
18    product: linux
19detection:
20    selection_process:
21        Image|endswith: '/grep'
22    selection_architecture:
23        CommandLine|endswith:
24            - 'aarch64'
25            - 'arm'
26            - 'i386'
27            - 'i686'
28            - 'mips'
29            - 'x86_64'
30    condition: all of selection_*
31falsepositives:
32    - Unknown
33level: low

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