Yara Unexpected Miner Process

osquery
Currently running CryptoCoin miner
Author

Chainguard

Published

January 29, 2025

Description

ODK (osquery-defense-kit) is unique in that the queries are designed to be used as part of a production detection & response pipeline. The detection queries are formulated to return zero rows during normal expected behavior, so that they may be configured to generate alerts when rows are returned.

Query

-- Currently running CryptoCoin miner
-- 
-- reference:
--   * https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/yara/pua_cryptocoin_miner.yar
--
-- tags: persistent
-- interval: 7200
-- platform: posix
SELECT
  yara.*,
  -- Child
  p0.pid AS p0_pid,
  p0.path AS p0_path,
  p0.name AS p0_name,
  p0.start_time AS p0_start,
  p0.cmdline AS p0_cmd,
  p0.cwd AS p0_cwd,
  p0.cgroup_path AS p0_cgroup,
  p0.euid AS p0_euid,
  p0_hash.sha256 AS p0_sha256,
  -- Parent
  p0.parent AS p1_pid,
  p1.path AS p1_path,
  p1.name AS p1_name,
  p1.start_time AS p1_start,
  p1.euid AS p1_euid,
  p1.cmdline AS p1_cmd,
  p1_hash.sha256 AS p1_sha256,
  -- Grandparent
  p1.parent AS p2_pid,
  p2.name AS p2_name,
  p2.start_time AS p2_start,
  p2.path AS p2_path,
  p2.cmdline AS p2_cmd,
  p2_hash.sha256 AS p2_sha256
FROM
  processes p0
  JOIN yara ON p0.path = yara.path
  LEFT JOIN hash p0_hash ON p0.path = p0_hash.path
  LEFT JOIN processes p1 ON p0.parent = p1.pid
  LEFT JOIN hash p1_hash ON p1.path = p1_hash.path
  LEFT JOIN processes p2 ON p1.parent = p2.pid
  LEFT JOIN hash p2_hash ON p2.path = p2_hash.path
WHERE
  p0.pid IN (
    SELECT
      pid
    FROM
      processes
    WHERE
      start_time > (strftime('%s', 'now') - 7200)
      AND path != ""
    GROUP BY
      path
  )
  AND yara.sigrule = '    
    rule miner {
    strings:
        $tcp = "stratum+tcp://" ascii
        $tls = "stratum+tls://" ascii
        $ssl = "stratum+ssl://" ascii
        $stratum = "stratum://" ascii
        $normalhash = "\\"normalHashing\\": true,"
    condition:
        filesize < 10MB and 1 of them
}'
  AND yara.count > 0

tags: SStagSS

Reference

https://github.com/chainguard-dev/osquery-defense-kit