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Panther rules: source
| Rule | Severity |
|---|---|
| EKS Audit Log based single sourceIP is generating multiple 403s | informational |
EKS Audit Log based single sourceIP is generating multiple 403s
#This detection identifies if a public sourceIP is generating multiple 403s with the Kubernetes API server.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Discovery |
Detection logic
from ipaddress import ip_address
from panther_aws_helpers import eks_panther_obj_ref
# Alert if
# state is ResponseComplete
# sourceIPs[0] is a Public Address
# responseStatus:code == 403
def rule(event):
if event.get("stage", "") != "ResponseComplete":
return False
# We include only 403
if event.get("responseStatus", {}).get("code", 0) != 403:
return False
# And we only want things that might naively be kubernetes api endpoints
# we do not want to alert on scanners casting non-kubernetes requests.
if not event.get("requestURI", "").startswith(("/api/", "/apis/")):
return False
p_eks = eks_panther_obj_ref(event)
if not ip_address(p_eks.get("sourceIPs")[0]).is_global:
return False
return True
# If not defined, defaults to the rule display name or rule ID.
def title(event):
p_eks = eks_panther_obj_ref(event)
return (
f"[{p_eks.get('sourceIPs')[0]}] received [403] "
f"when executing [{p_eks.get('verb')}] "
f"for resource [{p_eks.get('resource')}] "
f"in ns [{p_eks.get('ns')}] on "
f"[{p_eks.get('p_source_label')}] as "
f"[{p_eks.get('actor')}]"
)
def dedup(event):
p_eks = eks_panther_obj_ref(event)
return f"{p_eks.get('p_source_label')}_403_{p_eks.get('sourceIPs')[0]}"
def alert_context(event):
p_eks = eks_panther_obj_ref(event)
mutable_event = event.to_dict()
mutable_event["p_eks"] = p_eks
return dict(mutable_event)
Rule specification
AnalysisType: rule
Filename: source_ip_multiple_403.py
RuleID: "Amazon.EKS.Audit.Multiple403"
DisplayName: "EKS Audit Log based single sourceIP is generating multiple 403s"
Enabled: true
LogTypes:
- Amazon.EKS.Audit
Tags:
- EKS
Reports:
MITRE ATT&CK:
- "TA0007:T1613"
Reference: https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/security/docs/detective/
Severity: Info
Description: > # (Optional)
This detection identifies if a public sourceIP is generating multiple 403s
with the Kubernetes API server.
DedupPeriodMinutes: 30 # The amount of time in minutes for grouping alerts (Optional, defaults to 60)
Threshold: 10 # The minimum number of event matches prior to an alert sending (Optional, defaults to 1)
SummaryAttributes: # A list of fields in the event to create top 5 summaries for (Optional)
- user:username
- p_any_ip_addresses
- p_source_label
Stages and Predicates
Fires on Amazon.EKS.Audit events when all of the conditions below hold.
Condition
stageisResponseCompleteresponseStatus.codeis403any of:
requestURIstarts with/api/requestURIstarts with/apis/
This rule also runs imperative logic the parser cannot express as a filter. The conditions above are the structured part it could extract.
Indicators
These rows show field, operator, and value matches.
| Field | Kind | Values | Search |
|---|---|---|---|
requestURI | starts_with |
| field:"requestURI" kind:starts_with |
responseStatus.code | eq |
| field:"responseStatus.code" kind:eq value:"403" |
stage | eq |
| field:"stage" kind:eq value:"ResponseComplete" |
Worked example
A sample event from the rule's unit tests that triggers a match.Sample Test Event
{
"annotations": {
"authorization.k8s.io/decision": "allow",
"authorization.k8s.io/reason": "RBAC: allowed by ClusterRoleBinding \"system:coredns\" of ClusterRole \"system:coredns\" to ServiceAccount \"coredns/kube-system\""
},
"apiVersion": "audit.k8s.io/v1",
"auditID": "e2626946-90e1-4d0c-829e-ad5a78572926",
"kind": "Event",
"level": "Metadata",
"objectRef": {
"apiGroup": "discovery.k8s.io",
"apiVersion": "v1",
"resource": "endpointslices"
},
"p_any_ip_addresses": [
"5.5.5.5"
],
"p_any_usernames": [
"system:serviceaccount:kube-system:coredns"
],
"p_event_time": "2022-11-29 22:34:06.892",
"p_log_type": "Amazon.EKS.Audit",
"p_parse_time": "2022-11-29 22:45:25.024",
"p_row_id": "c2a7d8dd7c858dcae0a1aaf314b2a207",
"p_source_id": "4c859cd4-9406-469b-9e0e-c2dc1bee24fa",
"p_source_label": "example-cluster-eks-logs",
"requestReceivedTimestamp": "2022-11-29 22:34:06.892",
"requestURI": "/apis/discovery.k8s.io/v1/endpointslices?allowWatchBookmarks=true&resourceVersion=2528212&timeout=5m56s&timeoutSeconds=356&watch=true",
"responseStatus": {
"code": 403
},
"sourceIPs": [
"5.5.5.5"
],
"stage": "ResponseComplete",
"stageTimestamp": "2022-11-29 22:40:02.903",
"user": {
"extra": {
"authentication_kubernetes_io_slash_pod-name": [
"coredns-57ff979f67-bl27n"
],
"authentication_kubernetes_io_slash_pod-uid": [
"5b9488ae-5563-42aa-850b-b0d82edb3e22"
]
},
"groups": [
"system:serviceaccounts",
"system:serviceaccounts:kube-system",
"system:authenticated"
],
"uid": "5e4461f9-f529-4e66-9343-0b0cc9452284",
"username": "system:serviceaccount:kube-system:coredns"
},
"userAgent": "Go-http-client/2.0",
"verb": "watch"
}