rootcheck

XML section name

<rootcheck>
</rootcheck>

Configuration options for policy monitoring and anomaly detection.

Options

base_directory

The base directory that will be prefixed to the following options:

  • Check rootkits

  • Check trojans

  • Scan the /dev directory

  • Check the hidden files using system calls

Default value (UNIX)

/

Default value (Windows)

C:\

Allowed values

Path to a directory

ignore

List of files or directories to be ignored (one entry per line). Multiple lines may be entered to include multiple files or directories. These files and directories will be ignored during scans.

Allowed values

sregex

Valid for

check_sys, check_dev, check_files

Attributes:

type

Simple regex expression to ignore files and directories.

Allowed values

sregex

rootkit_files

Change the location of the rootkit files database.

Default value

etc/shared/rootkit_files.txt

Allowed values

A file with the rootkit files signatures

Note

Paths can be referred to relative paths under the Wazuh installation directory, or full paths.

rootkit_trojans

Change the location of the rootkit trojans database.

Default value

etc/shared/rootkit_trojans.txt

Allowed values

A file with the trojans signatures

windows_audit

Specifies the path to a Windows audit definition file.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Path to a Windows audit definition file

system_audit

Specifies the path to an audit definition file for Unix-like systems.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Audit definition file for Unix-like systems

windows_apps

Specifies the path to a Windows application definition file.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Path to a Windows application def. file

windows_malware

Specifies the path to a Windows malware definitions file.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Path to a Windows malware definitions file

scanall

Tells rootcheck to scan the entire system. This option may lead to some false positives.

Default value

no

Allowed values

yes, no

readall

Allow Rootcheck read all system files and compare the bytes read with files size. With readall set to no, only these folders are checked: /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /dev, /lib, /etc, /root, /var/log, /var/mail, /var/lib, /var/www, /usr/lib, /usr/include, /tmp, /boot, /usr/local, /var/tmp and /sys.

Default value

no

Allowed values

yes, no

frequency

Frequency that the rootcheck is going to be executed (in seconds).

Default value

36000

Allowed values

A positive number (seconds)

disabled

Disables the execution of rootcheck.

Default value

no

Allowed values

yes, no

check_dev

Enable or disable the checking of /dev.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_files

Enable or disable the checking of files.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_if

Enable or disable the checking of network interfaces.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_pids

Enable or disable the checking of process ID’s.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_ports

Enable or disable the checking of network ports.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_sys

Enable or disable checking for anomalous file system objects.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_trojans

Enable or disable checking for trojans.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_unixaudit

Enable or disable the checking of unixaudit.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_winapps

Enable or disable the checking of winapps.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_winaudit

Enable or disable the checking of winaudit.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

check_winmalware

Enable or disable checking for Windows malware.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

skip_nfs

Enable or disable the scanning of network mounted filesystems (Works on Linux and FreeBSD). Currently, skip_nfs will exclude checking files on CIFS or NFS mounts.

Default value

yes

Allowed values

yes, no

Default Unix configuration 

<!-- Policy monitoring -->
<rootcheck>
  <disabled>no</disabled>
  <check_unixaudit>yes</check_unixaudit>
  <check_files>yes</check_files>
  <check_trojans>yes</check_trojans>
  <check_dev>yes</check_dev>
  <check_sys>yes</check_sys>
  <check_pids>yes</check_pids>
  <check_ports>yes</check_ports>
  <check_if>yes</check_if>
  <ignore type="sregex">^/etc/</ignore>

  <!-- Frequency that rootcheck is executed - every 12 hours -->
  <frequency>43200</frequency>

  <rootkit_files>etc/shared/rootkit_files.txt</rootkit_files>
  <rootkit_trojans>etc/shared/rootkit_trojans.txt</rootkit_trojans>

  <skip_nfs>yes</skip_nfs>
</rootcheck>