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Chmod Targeting Sensitive Directories

A Sigma rule for process creation on Linux, by Christopher Peacock @SecurePeacock, SCYTHE @scythe_io.

medium 1 ATT&CK technique 1 program it names

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  filter_main_apt_key:
    CommandLine|startswith: 'chmod 700 /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.'
  filter_main_landscape:
    CommandLine: 'chmod 0775 /etc/landscape/'
  filter_main_mkinitramfs:
    CommandLine|startswith: 'chmod 755 /var/tmp/mkinitramfs'
  filter_main_postinst:
    CommandLine|contains: '/etc/'
    ParentCommandLine|contains|all:
      - '/var/lib/dpkg/info/'
      - '.postinst configure'
  filter_main_ubuntu_apparmor:
    CommandLine: 'chmod 644 /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ubuntu'
  filter_main_update_shells:
    CommandLine|contains: 'chmod --reference=/etc/shells'
    ParentCommandLine|endswith: '/update-shells'
  selection:
    CommandLine|contains:
      - '/tmp/'
      - '/.Library/'
      - '/etc/'
      - '/opt/'
    Image|endswith: '/chmod'
  condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*

The rule’s detection, its selections and fields in order of name. The whole rule, with its references and false positives, is on SigmaHQ, by Christopher Peacock @SecurePeacock, SCYTHE @scythe_io, under the Detection Rule License 1.1. CmdID evaluates it on a command line alone: a test on what a command line cannot show, such as the parent process or the user, is not met.

None of the everyday examples and documented commands on CmdID’s program pages trips it. To see whether a command line does, paste it into CmdID.

Programs and files it names

their pages here

ATT&CK

the techniques it is tagged with
T1222.002File and Directory Permissions Modification: Linux and Mac Permissions