title: Local Groups Discovery
id: 676381a6-15ca-4d73-a9c8-6a22e970b90d
status: experimental
description: Detects enumeration of local system groups
author: Ömer Günal, Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
date: 2020/10/11
references:
  - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1069.001/T1069.001.md
logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: linux
detection:
  selection_1:
    Image|endswith:
      - '/groups'
  selection_2:
    Image|endswith:
      - '/cat'
    CommandLine|contains:
      - '/etc/group'
  condition: 1 of them
falsepositives:
  - Legitimate administration activities
level: low
tags:
  - attack.discovery
  - attack.t1069.001