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Azure Kubernetes Pods Deleted

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Azure Kubernetes Pods Deleted

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Identifies the deletion of Azure Kubernetes Pods. Adversaries may delete a Kubernetes pod to disrupt the normal behavior of the environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-azure*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-25m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • Azure
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Asset Visibility

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.16.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.0.0

Rule authors: Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Pods may be deleted by a system administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Pods deletions from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guide

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## Config

The Azure Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and azure.activitylogs.operation_name
:"MICROSOFT.KUBERNETES/CONNECTEDCLUSTERS/PODS/DELETE" and
event.outcome:(Success or success)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 2 (8.0.0 release)
  • Formatting only
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