Kubernetes Privileged Pod

Description

Kubernetes audit logs which contains a creation of a privilged pod.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1204 User Execution Execution

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory kubernetes_privileged_pod
Test Date 2023-12-14

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Kubernetes_privileged_pod-Json

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1204/kubernetes_privileged_pod/kubernetes_privileged_pod.json
  • Sourcetype: __json
  • Source: kubernetes

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Kubernetes Pod With Host Network Attachment Anomaly Cloud T1204 Kubernetes Security
Kubernetes Create or Update Privileged Pod Anomaly Cloud T1204 Kubernetes Security
Kubernetes Pod Created in Default Namespace Anomaly Cloud T1204 Kubernetes Security

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1204/kubernetes_privileged_pod/kubernetes_privileged_pod.json --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

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


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0