PH_Rule_Perf_222
Enabled
Detects that virtual machine memory has reached a warning level based on swapping rate greater than 1.5MBps based on 2 successive readings in a 10 minute interval
9
Performance
Impact
Impact consists of techniques that adversaries use to disrupt availability or compromise integrity by manipulating business and operational processes. Techniques used for impact can include destroying or tampering with data. In some cases, business processes can look fine, but may have been altered to benefit the adversaries’ goals. These techniques might be used by adversaries to follow through on their end goal or to provide cover for a confidentiality breach.
https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040T1499.001
Endpoint Denial of Service: OS Exhaustion Flood
Adversaries may target the operating system (OS) for a DoS attack, since the (OS) is responsible for managing the finite resources on a system. These attacks do not need to exhaust the actual resources on a system since they can simply exhaust the limits that an OS self-imposes to prevent the entire system from being overwhelmed by excessive demands on its capacity.
https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1499/001Virtualization
VCenter or ESX via VM_SDK
Correlation
This is caused by some process taking too much memory relative to physical memory leading to swapping. Identify the top processes consuming memory and fix the issue if it is high.
If the following pattern or patterns match an ingested event within the given time window in seconds, trigger an incident.
600 seconds
If the following defined pattern/s occur within a 600 second time window.
VMMemHigh
This is the named definition of the event query, this is important if multiple subpatterns are defined to distinguish them.
This is the query logic that matches incoming events
eventType = "PH_DEV_MON_VM_MEM_UTIL"
This defines how matching events are aggregated, only events with the same matching attribute values are grouped into one unique incident ID
hostName,hostIpAddr,phyMachIpAddr,phyMachName,vmName,relayDevIpAddr
This is most typically a numerical constraint that defines when the rule should trigger an incident
AVG(swapReadKBytesPerSec) > DeviceToCMDBAttr(hostIpAddr,SwapReadKBpsThreshCrit) AND COUNT(*) >= 2
This section defines which fields in matching raw events should be mapped to the incident attributes in the resulting incident.
The available raw event attributes to map are limited to the group by attributes and the aggregate event constraint fields for each subpattern
hostIpAddr = VMMemHigh.hostIpAddr,
hostName = VMMemHigh.hostName,
phyMachIpAddr = VMMemHigh.phyMachIpAddr,
phyMachName = VMMemHigh.phyMachName,
swapReadKBytesPerSec = VMMemHigh.AVG(swapReadKBytesPerSec),
vmName = VMMemHigh.vmName,
relayDevIpAddr = VMMemHigh.relayDevIpAddr