Webshells 1.0

Webshells

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Webshells answers: which web sites does the host serve, and do they hold a webshell - judged by where, when and how a script appeared, never by reading it.

At a glance

Question

Web servers and the sites they serve - and webshell indicators.

Reads

IIS (with Exchange and SharePoint recognised), Apache httpd, nginx and Tomcat: their configuration, each site's folders, IIS's request log for flagged scripts.

Never reads

The content of scripts.

Rule prefix

WEB

What it reads

  • Sites (web_app): bindings, folders, the account the code runs as, what the site holds, and when it was last deployed.

  • Scripts with indicators (web_file): a server-side script written alone after the last deployment, in an upload or image folder, hidden, or with a disguised name; posted to in IIS's request log; or detected by the antivirus. Each gets a confidence: high, medium or low.

  • IIS native modules and handlers (web_module) that stand out - unsigned, or outside the usual folders.

  • Shells a web server started: process rules over the web server's worker processes.

Signals it raises

6 rules: 4 high, 1 medium, 1 low. The full text of each is in the rule catalog.

ID

Severity

Title

Evidence

ATT&CK

WEB-HANDLER-ON-STATIC-TYPE

high

A handler runs code for a static file type

web_module

T1505.003, T1505.004

WEB-NATIVE-MODULE-UNUSUAL

high

IIS loads a native module from an unusual place, or one not validly signed

web_module

T1505.004

WEB-SERVER-STARTED-PROCESS

high

A web server process started a shell or a system tool

process_creation, running_process

T1505.003, T1059, T1190

WEB-WEBSHELL-HIGH

high

A server-side script carries strong webshell indicators

web_file

T1505.003

WEB-WEBSHELL-MEDIUM

medium

A server-side script carries webshell indicators

web_file

T1505.003

WEB-WEBSHELL-LOW

low

A server-side script carries one webshell indicator

web_file

T1505.003

How to read it

  • Deployment time is the baseline. A script written alone, days after the rest of the site was deployed, is the classic webshell pattern.

  • Requests: a flagged script that IIS's log shows receiving POSTs was used.

  • A shell started by w3wp.exe is the strongest sign that a webshell ran a command.

What it can't see

Next

Applications: what software is installed.