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Description

This search uses the Kubernetes logs from Splunk Connect from Kubernetes to detect Kubernetes Security Scanner.

• Type: TTP
• Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud, Dev Sec Ops Analytics
• Datamodel:
• Last Updated: 2021-08-24
• Author: Patrick Bareiss, Splunk
• ID: 4890cd6b-0112-4974-a272-c5c153aee551

ATT&CK

ID	Technique	Tactic
T1526	Cloud Service Discovery	Discovery

Search

`kube_objects_events` object.message IN ("Pulling image *kube-hunter*", "Pulling image *kube-bench*", "Pulling image *kube-recon*", "Pulling image *kube-recon*") 
| rename object.* AS * 
| rename involvedObject.* AS * 
| rename source.host AS host 
| eval phase="operate" 
| eval severity="high" 
| stats min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime count by host, name, namespace, kind, reason, message, phase, severity 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `kubernetes_scanner_image_pulling_filter`

Associated Analytic Story

• Dev Sec Ops

How To Implement

You must ingest Kubernetes logs through Splunk Connect for Kubernetes.

Required field

• object.message
• source.host
• object.involvedObject.name
• object.involvedObject.namespace
• object.involvedObject.kind
• object.message
• object.reason

Kill Chain Phase

• Actions on Objectives

Known False Positives

unknown

RBA

Risk Score	Impact	Confidence	Message
81.0	90	90	Kubernetes Scanner image pulled on host host

Reference

• https://github.com/splunk/splunk-connect-for-kubernetes

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

• https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1526/kubernetes_kube_hunter/kubernetes_kube_hunter.json

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