Detection rules › Sigma
Suspicious Plink Port Forwarding
Detects suspicious Plink tunnel port forwarding to a local port
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Lateral Movement | T1021.001 Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol |
| Command & Control | T1572 Protocol Tunneling |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 1 | Process creation |
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: selection
CommandLine|contains: ' -R '
Description: 'Command-line SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin client'
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.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
CommandLine | match |
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Description | eq |
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