PUA Restic Backup Tool Execution

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Applies to: Log360Log360 Cloud

About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the execution of the Restic backup tool, which can be used for data exfiltration.

Severity

Attention

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (( COMMANDLINE contains "--password-file,--use-fs-snapshot" AND COMMANDLINE contains "init,backup" AND COMMANDLINE contains " -r " ) OR COMMANDLINE contains "sftp:,rest:http,s3:s3.,s3.http,azure:, gs:,rclone:,swift:, b2:" ) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

@Nounou Mbeiri, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)