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This detection has been marked deprecated by the Splunk Threat Research team. This means that it will no longer be maintained or supported.

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Description

This search provides information on Kubernetes service accounts,accessing pods by IP address, verb and decision

  • Type: Hunting
  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud

  • Last Updated: 2020-06-23
  • Author: Rod Soto, Splunk
  • ID: 5b30b25d-7d32-42d8-95ca-64dfcd9076e6

Annotations

ATT&CK
Kill Chain Phase
NIST
  • DE.AE
CIS20
  • CIS 10
CVE
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`aws_cloudwatchlogs_eks` user.groups{}=system:serviceaccounts  objectRef.resource=pods 
| table  sourceIPs{} user.username userAgent verb annotations.authorization.k8s.io/decision  
| top  sourceIPs{} user.username verb annotations.authorization.k8s.io/decision 
|`kubernetes_aws_detect_most_active_service_accounts_by_pod_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

:information_source: kubernetes_aws_detect_most_active_service_accounts_by_pod_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required fields

List of fields required to use this analytic.

  • _time

How To Implement

You must install splunk AWS add on and Splunk App for AWS. This search works with cloudwatch logs

Known False Positives

Not all service accounts interactions are malicious. Analyst must consider IP, verb and decision context when trying to detect maliciousness.

Associated Analytic Story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
25.0 50 50 tbd

:information_source: The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.

Reference

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

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