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Tomcat

Date: 2025-03-26 ID: c09bfa7f-1770-4c05-aefa-149f1b6d6e7d Author: Michael Haag, Splunk Environment: attack_range Directory: tomcat

Description

Manual generation of attack data related to Tomcat with nginx proxypass.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory tomcat
Test Date 2025-03-26

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Tomcat_nginx_access

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1190/tomcat/tomcat_nginx_access.log
  • Sourcetype: nginx:plus:access
  • Source: nginx

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

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Tomcat Session Deserialization Attempt Anomaly Web T1190, T1505.003 Apache Tomcat Session Deserialization Attacks
Tomcat Session File Upload Attempt Anomaly Web T1190, T1505.003 Apache Tomcat Session Deserialization Attacks

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1190/tomcat/tomcat_nginx_access.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