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