title: 'Suspicious History File Operations'
id: eae8ce9f-bde9-47a6-8e79-f20d18419910
status: experimental
description: 'Detects commandline operations on shell history files'
    # Rule detects presence of various shell history files in process commandline
    # Normally user expected to view own history with dedicated 'history' command and not some other tools
    # There is a possibility for rule to trigger, when T1070.003 techinuque is used (history file cleared)
    # For this rule to work execve auditing must be configured
    # Example config (place it at the bottom of audit.rules)
    # -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S execve -k execve
    # -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S execve -k execve
author: 'Mikhail Larin, oscd.community'
date: 2020/10/17
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1552.003/T1552.003.md
logsource:
    product: linux
    service: auditd
detection:
    selection:
        type: EXECVE
        keywords|contains:
            - '.bash_history'
            - '.zsh_history'
            - '.zhistory'
            - '.history'
            - '.sh_history'
            - 'fish_history'
    condition: selection
fields:
    - a0
    - a1
    - a2
    - a3
    - key
falsepositives:
    - 'Legitimate administrative activity'
    - 'Ligitimate software, cleaning hist file'
level: medium
tags:
    - attack.credential_access
    - attack.t1552.003