Detection rules › Sigma

HackTool - Hydra Password Bruteforce Execution

Severity
high
Author
Vasiliy Burov
Source
upstream

Detects command line parameters used by Hydra password guessing hack tool

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1110 Brute Force, T1110.001 Brute Force: Password Guessing

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
CommandLine|contains: '^PASS^'
CommandLine|contains: '^USER^'
CommandLine|contains: '-p '
CommandLine|contains: '-u '

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
CommandLinematch
  • -p corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • -u corpus 3 (sigma 3)
  • ^PASS^
  • ^USER^