Hping Process Activity

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

Hping ran on a Linux host. Hping is a FOSS command-line packet analyzer and has the ability to construct network packets for a wide variety of network security testing applications, including scanning and firewall auditing.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

auditbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#date-math[Date Math format], see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hping

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Linux
Threat Detection
Discovery

Version: 101

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

		event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:(hping or hping2 or hping3)

	

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Tactic:
- Name: Discovery
- ID: TA0007
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/
Technique:
- Name: System Information Discovery
- ID: T1082
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1082/