title: Webshell Recon Detection Via CommandLine & Processes
id: f64e5c19-879c-4bae-b471-6d84c8339677
status: experimental
description: Looking for processes spawned by web server components that indicate reconnaissance by popular public domain webshells for whether perl, python or wget are installed.
author: Cian Heasley
references:
    - https://ragged-lab.blogspot.com/2020/07/webshells-automating-reconnaissance.html
date: 2020/07/22
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.t1505.003
    - attack.privilege_escalation       # an old one
    - attack.t1100      # an old one
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        - ParentImage|contains:
            - '\apache'
            - '\tomcat'
        - ParentImage|endswith:
            - '\w3wp.exe'
            - '\php-cgi.exe'
            - '\nginx.exe'
            - '\httpd.exe'
    selection2:
        Image|endswith:
            - '\cmd.exe'
        CommandLine|contains:
            - 'perl --help'
            - 'python --help'
            - 'wget --help'
            - 'perl -h'
    condition: selection and selection2
fields:
    - Image
    - CommandLine
    - ParentCommandLine
falsepositives:
    - unknown
level: high