# Supplementary defense-in-depth: outbound connections to common mining-pool # ports. NOTE: this image's shipped falco_rules.yaml has no built-in # miner/stratum/pool rules to "enable" (checked directly - none exist), so # this is written from scratch rather than overriding a stock rule. It's # a weaker signal than miner-detect.yaml's process-name match (our actual # incident used port 10128, which isn't in this list - pools use arbitrary # ports), kept anyway as a second layer. - list: miner_pool_ports # Kept to well-corroborated fixed mining-pool ports only, all well below # the Linux ephemeral port range (32768-60999). Two entries originally # added here without solid sourcing (45560, 45700) fell inside that # ephemeral range and produced an immediate false positive against # qbittorrent_eXoDOS's own randomly-assigned outbound source port - # removed. items: [3333, 3334, 4444, 5555, 5556, 7777, 8888, 9999, 14444] - rule: Detect outbound connection to common miner pool port desc: Outbound connection to a TCP port commonly used by cryptomining pools. condition: > outbound and evt.type in (connect, sendto, sendmsg) and fd.rport in (miner_pool_ports) output: > Outbound connection to common miner-pool port (user=%user.name command=%proc.cmdline connection=%fd.name container=%container.name image=%container.image.repository) priority: WARNING tags: [miners, network, mitre_impact]