:no_entry: THIS IS A DEPRECATED DETECTION

This detection has been marked deprecated by the Splunk Threat Research team. This means that it will no longer be maintained or supported.

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Description

This search returns a list of hosts that have not successfully completed a backup in over a week. Deprecated because it's a infrastructure monitoring.

  • Type: Hunting
  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud

  • Last Updated: 2017-09-12
  • Author: David Dorsey, Splunk
  • ID: a34aae96-ccf8-4aef-952c-3ea214444440

Annotations

ATT&CK
Kill Chain Phase
NIST
  • DE.AE
CIS20
  • CIS 10
CVE
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`netbackup` MESSAGE="Disk/Partition backup completed successfully." 
| stats latest(_time) as latestTime by COMPUTERNAME 
| `security_content_ctime(latestTime)` 
| rename COMPUTERNAME as dest 
| eval isOutlier=if(latestTime <= relative_time(now(), "-7d@d"), 1, 0) 
| search isOutlier=1 
| table latestTime, dest 
| `extended_period_without_successful_netbackup_backups_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

:information_source: extended_period_without_successful_netbackup_backups_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required fields

List of fields required to use this analytic.

  • _time
  • MESSAGE
  • COMPUTERNAME

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search you need to first obtain data from your backup solution, either from the backup logs on your hosts, or from a central server responsible for performing the backups. If you do not use Netbackup, you can modify this search for your backup solution. Depending on how often you backup your systems, you may want to modify how far in the past to look for a successful backup, other than the default of seven days.

Known False Positives

None identified

Associated Analytic Story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
25.0 50 50 tbd

:information_source: The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.

Reference

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

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