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Modification of ld.so.preload

Identifies modification of ld.so.preload for shared object injection. This technique is used by attackers to load arbitrary code into processes.

MITRE ATT&CK

T1574.006

privilege-escalationpersistencedefense-evasion

Detection Query

selection:
  type: PATH
  name: /etc/ld.so.preload
condition: selection

Author

E.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Tony Lambert), oscd.community

Created

2019-10-24

Data Sources

linuxauditd

Platforms

linux

References

Tags

attack.privilege-escalationattack.persistenceattack.defense-evasionattack.t1574.006

Raw Content

title: Modification of ld.so.preload
id: 4b3cb710-5e83-4715-8c45-8b2b5b3e5751
status: test
description: Identifies modification of ld.so.preload for shared object injection. This technique is used by attackers to load arbitrary code into processes.
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1574.006/T1574.006.md
    - https://eqllib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/analytics/fd9b987a-1101-4ed3-bda6-a70300eaf57e.html
author: E.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Tony Lambert), oscd.community
date: 2019-10-24
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.t1574.006
logsource:
    product: linux
    service: auditd
detection:
    selection:
        type: 'PATH'
        name: '/etc/ld.so.preload'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high