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Utility Socat Remote Tcp Connection With Echo Disabled

Date: 2026-08-27 ID: 27d33a85-ada2-49b4-b156-dc1ccb453ea5 Author: Maria Jose Erquiaga Environment: attack_range Directory: utility_socat_remote_tcp_connection_with_echo_disabled

Description

Process-execution telemetry generated by running the socat utility with local terminal echo disabled while connecting to a remote TCP endpoint. The test produced representative osquery process telemetry containing echo=0 and a TCP address argument.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory utility_socat_remote_tcp_connection_with_echo_disabled
Test Date 2026-08-27

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Osquery.log

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059/utility_socat_remote_tcp_connection_with_echo_disabled/osquery.log
  • Sourcetype: osquery:results
  • Source: osqueryd.results.log

No specific detections currently use this attack data for testing. However, you can find related detections and analytics in our security content repository.

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059/utility_socat_remote_tcp_connection_with_echo_disabled/osquery.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Related Content

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.

Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0