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Describe EKS cluster

Platform Author Last Update
aws Anela Tiro 2023-07-01

An adversary may attempt to describe EKS cluster

MITRE IDs

Required Permissions

  • eks:DescribeCluster

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example Value
name str Cluster name which will be enumerated cluster_name

Attacker Action

aws eks describe-cluster --name cluster_name

Detection Case

ELK query

When logs are ingested into ELK, the following Lucene query can be used to identify relevant events.

eventName:DescribeCluster AND eventSource:*.eks.amazonaws.com  

Sigma Definition

---
title: Describe EKS cluster
id: testing
status: experimental
author: Anela Tiro
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to describe EKS cluster
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.eks.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "DescribeCluster"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.None