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# Kubernetes enumeration activity

### Synopsis

| Field                | Value                                                                                                                            |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Activation Period    | 14 Days                                                                                                                          |
| Training Period      | 30 Days                                                                                                                          |
| Test Period          | 10 Minutes                                                                                                                       |
| Deduplication Period | 7 Days                                                                                                                           |
| Required Data        | <p>Requires one of the following data sources:<br>AWS Audit Log OR Azure Audit Log OR Gcp Audit Log OR Kubernetes Audit Logs</p> |
| Detection Modules    | Cloud                                                                                                                            |
| Detector Tags        | Kubernetes - API                                                                                                                 |
| ATT\&CK Tactic       | Discovery (TA0007)                                                                                                               |
| ATT\&CK Technique    | Container and Resource Discovery (T1613), Cloud Service Discovery (T1526)                                                        |
| Severity             | Informational                                                                                                                    |

### Description

An identity attempted to discover available resources within a cluster. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the Kubernetes environment and discover resources that may assist to perform additional attacks within the environment.

### Attacker's Goals

Map the cluster environment and detect potential resources to abuse.

### Investigative actions

* Check the identity's role designation in the organization.
* Identify which available resources were discovered.
* Investigate if the discovered resources were used to extract sensitive information or perform other attacks in the cloud environment.

### Variations

<details>

<summary>Suspicious Kubernetes enumeration activity</summary>

**Synopsis**

| Field             | Value                                                                     |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic    | Discovery (TA0007)                                                        |
| ATT\&CK Technique | Container and Resource Discovery (T1613), Cloud Service Discovery (T1526) |
| Severity          | Informational                                                             |

**Description**

An identity attempted to discover available resources within a cluster. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the Kubernetes environment and discover resources that may assist to perform additional attacks within the environment.

**Attacker's Goals**

Map the cluster environment and detect potential resources to abuse.

**Investigative actions**

* Check the identity's role designation in the organization.
* Identify which available resources were discovered.
* Investigate if the discovered resources were used to extract sensitive information or perform other attacks in the cloud environment.

</details>


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