Azure Kubernetes Pods Deleted

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

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: 5m

Searches indices from: now-25m (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#date-math[Date Math format], see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/resource-provider-operations#microsoftkubernetes

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
Azure
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Asset Visibility

Version: 5

Rule authors:

Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

Rule query

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

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Tactic:
- Name: Impact
- ID: TA0040
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/