Detects unauthorized miners (and other runtime threats) via Falco's syscall/eBPF monitoring, following the 2026-08-06 gitea/xmrig compromise. Wired into netdata rather than a new notification channel: Falco exposes a Prometheus /metrics endpoint, netdata scrapes it, and a new health.d alarm pages through netdata's already-configured Telegram bot - no new alerting infra needed. Includes a custom process-name rule for known miner binaries (the stock Stratum-protocol rule wouldn't have caught the actual gitea incident, which used a bare host:port with no scheme prefix), an outbound miner-pool-port rule as a second layer, and rule_matching: all in the Falco config - without it, Falco silently drops all but the first matching rule per event, which would have suppressed our custom rule whenever a stock rule also matched the same process.
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1.2 KiB
YAML
28 lines
1.2 KiB
YAML
# Custom rule: catch known cryptominer binaries by process name directly.
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# Added after the 2026-08-06 gitea/xmrig compromise, where the miner was
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# invoked as `--url=host:port` with no "stratum+tcp" scheme prefix, which
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# would NOT have matched Falco's stock "Detect crypto miners using the
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# Stratum protocol" rule. Matching the binary name is the reliable signal.
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- list: miner_binary_names
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items: [
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xmrig, xmrig-notls, xmr-stak, xmr-stak-cpu, xmr-stak-rx,
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minerd, cpuminer, ccminer, cgminer, bfgminer,
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nanominer, t-rex, trex, teamredminer, phoenixminer, lolminer,
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ethminer, nbminer, gminer, srbminer, xmrigMiner,
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]
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- rule: Detect crypto miner binary execution
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desc: >
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A process matching a known cryptocurrency miner binary name was executed.
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Catches unauthorized miners even when the command line doesn't use a
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stratum+tcp:// style URL.
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condition: >
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spawned_process and proc.name in (miner_binary_names)
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output: >
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Cryptominer binary execution detected
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(user=%user.name command=%proc.cmdline container=%container.name
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image=%container.image.repository pid=%proc.pid)
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priority: CRITICAL
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tags: [miners, process, mitre_impact]
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