Suspicious process execution in a privileged container

Synopsis

Field	Value
Activation Period	14 Days
Training Period	30 Days
Test Period	N/A (single event)
Deduplication Period	1 Day
Required Data	XDR Agent
Detector Tags	Kubernetes - AGENT, Containers
ATT&CK Tactic	Execution (TA0002), Privilege Escalation (TA0004)
ATT&CK Technique	Container Administration Command (T1609), Escape to Host (T1611)
Severity	Informational

Description

A process was executed in a privileged Kubernetes Pod for the first time in the past 30 days.

Attacker's Goals

Perform lateral movement to new hosts to expand the foothold within a network and gain higher privileges.

Investigative actions

• Investigate the processes being spawned on the host for malicious activities.
• Correlate the command run from the host and understand which software initiated it.

Variations

Suspicious process execution in a new privileged container

Synopsis

Field	Value
ATT&CK Tactic	Execution (TA0002), Privilege Escalation (TA0004)
ATT&CK Technique	Container Administration Command (T1609), Escape to Host (T1611)
Severity	Informational

Description

A process was executed in a privileged Kubernetes Pod for the first time in the past 30 days.

Attacker's Goals

Perform lateral movement to new hosts to expand the foothold within a network and gain higher privileges.

Investigative actions

• Investigate the processes being spawned on the host for malicious activities.
• Correlate the command run from the host and understand which software initiated it.