Hurricane Panda Activity

Detects Hurricane Panda Activity

Rule Content

- title: Hurricane Panda Activity
  id: 0eb2107b-a596-422e-b123-b389d5594ed7
  author: Florian Roth
  status: experimental
  description: Detects Hurricane Panda Activity
  references:
  - https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/crowdstrike-discovers-use-64-bit-zero-day-privilege-escalation-exploit-cve-2014-4113-hurricane-panda/
  tags:
  - attack.privilege_escalation
  - attack.g0009
  - attack.t1068
  logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
    service: null
  detection:
    selection:
      CommandLine:
      - '* localgroup administrators admin /add'
      - '*\Win64.exe*'
    condition: selection
  falsepositives:
  - Unknown
  level: high

Querying Elasticsearch

Import Libraries


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from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
from elasticsearch_dsl import Search
import pandas as pd

Initialize Elasticsearch client


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es = Elasticsearch(['http://helk-elasticsearch:9200'])
searchContext = Search(using=es, index='logs-*', doc_type='doc')

Run Elasticsearch Query


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s = searchContext.query('query_string', query='process_command_line.keyword:(*\ localgroup\ administrators\ admin\ \/add OR *\\Win64.exe*)')
response = s.execute()
if response.success():
    df = pd.DataFrame((d.to_dict() for d in s.scan()))

Show Results


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df.head()