Splunk® Security Content

Release Notes

This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Security Content. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

What's new

Enterprise Security Content Updates v3.48.0 was released on August 30, 2022. It includes the following enhancements.

Updated analytic story

  • Azure Active Directory Account Takeover
  • Linux Living Off The Land
  • Linux Privilege Escalation
  • Windows Registry Abuse
  • Windows Defense Evasion Tactics

New analytics

  • Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication Disabled
  • Linux apt-get Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Busybox Privilege Escalation
  • Linux c89 Privilege Escalation
  • Linux c99 Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Composer Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Cpulimit Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Csvtool Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Emacs Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Find Privilege Escalation
  • Linux GDB Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Gem Privilege Escalation
  • Linux GNU awk Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Make Privilege Escalation
  • Linux MySQL Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Octave Privilege Escalation
  • Linux OpenVPN Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Persistence and Privilege Escalation Risk Behavior
  • Linux PHP Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Puppet Privilege Escalation
  • Linux RPM Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Ruby Privilege Escalation
  • Linux Sqlite3 Privilege Escalation
  • Windows Autostart Execution LSASS Driver Registry Modification
  • Windows DLL Search Order Hijacking Hunt
  • Windows DLL Search Order Hijacking Hunt with Sysmon
  • Windows Remote Access Software Hunt

Updated analytics

  • AWS ECR Container Scanning Findings Low Informational Unknown
  • Detect AWS Console Login by User from New City
  • Detect AWS Console Login by User from New Country
  • Detect AWS Console Login by User from New Region
  • Detect Excessive Account Lockouts From Endpoint
  • Detect Excessive User Account Lockouts
  • Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 Exploitation
  • MSHTML Module Load in Office Product
  • Office Document Creating Schedule Task
  • Powershell Remote Thread to Known Windows Process
  • Windows InstallUtil Credential Theft
  • Windows Possible Credential Dumping

Other updates

  • Minor text update to research.splunk.com (thanks to @yaleman)
  • Added fillnull_value=null to security_content_summariesonly macro
  • Consolidated requirements.txt file for contentctl and docker detection testing, and updated GitHub actions workflow to run detection testing based on the code in the pull request.
Last modified on 29 August, 2022
  What's in Splunk Security Content

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Security Content: 3.48.0


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