AWSCloudTrail - STS Token Suspicious Activity from Kubernetes Worker Node
Identifies STS token usage from an EKS-hosted EC2 instance that originates outside AWS IP ranges, which may indicate token hijacking via SSRF or credential theft.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersIaaSIdentity ProviderOffice SuiteSaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- aws
- Log source service
- awscloudtrail
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 46685737-676a-4084-8e98-31b2998062db
- Tagged by the source as
- CredentialAccessLateralMovement
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1