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A repository of curated datasets from various attacks
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![](environments/static/attack-data-logo.png)



A Repository of curated datasets from various attacks to:



* Easily develop detections without having to build an environment from scratch or simulate an attack.

* Test detections, specifically [Splunks Security Content](https://github.com/splunk/security-content)

* [Replay](#replay-datasets-) into streaming pipelines for validating your detections in your production SIEM



# Installation

Notes:

* These steps are inteded to be ran on your actual Splunk host/server (not remotely)



GitHub LFS is used in this project. For Mac users git-lfs can be derived with homebrew (for another OS click [here](https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Installation)):



````

brew install git-lfs

````



Then you need to install it. I would recommend using the --skip-smudge parameter, which will avoid that all Git LFS files are downloaded during git clone. You can install it with the following command:



````

git lfs install --skip-smudge

````



Download the repository with this command:



````

git clone https://github.com/splunk/attack_data

````



Fetch all or select attack data sets



````

# This pulls all data - Warning >9Gb of data

git lfs pull



# This pulls one data set directory

git lfs pull --include=datasets/attack_techniques/T1003.001/atomic_red_team/



# Or pull just one log like this

git lfs pull --include=datasets/attack_techniques/T1003.001/atomic_red_team/windows-sysmon.log



````



# Anatomy of a Dataset 🧬

### Datasets

Datasets are defined by a common YML structure. The structure has the following fields:



|field| description|

|---|---|

| id | UUID of dataset |

|name  | name of author  |

| date  | last modified date  |

| dataset  | array of URLs where the hosted version of the dataset is located  |

| description | describes the dataset as detailed as possible |

| environment |  markdown filename of the environment description see below |

| technique | array of MITRE ATT&CK techniques associated with dataset |

| references | array of URLs that reference the dataset |

| sourcetypes | array of sourcetypes that are contained in the dataset |



For example



```

id: 405d5889-16c7-42e3-8865-1485d7a5b2b6

author: Patrick Bareiss

date: '2020-10-08'

description: 'Atomic Test Results: Successful Execution of test T1003.001-1 Windows

  Credential Editor Successful Execution of test T1003.001-2 Dump LSASS.exe Memory

  using ProcDump Return value unclear for test T1003.001-3 Dump LSASS.exe Memory using

  comsvcs.dll Successful Execution of test T1003.001-4 Dump LSASS.exe Memory using

  direct system calls and API unhooking Return value unclear for test T1003.001-6

  Offline Credential Theft With Mimikatz Return value unclear for test T1003.001-7

  LSASS read with pypykatz '

environment: attack_range

technique:

- T1003.001

dataset:

- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1003.001/atomic_red_team/windows-powershell.log

- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1003.001/atomic_red_team/windows-security.log

- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1003.001/atomic_red_team/windows-sysmon.log

- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1003.001/atomic_red_team/windows-system.log

references:

- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/001/

- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1003.001/T1003.001.md

- https://github.com/splunk/security-content/blob/develop/tests/T1003_001.yml

sourcetypes:

- XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

- WinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational

- WinEventLog:System

- WinEventLog:Security

```



### Environments



Environments are a description of where the dataset was collected. At this moment there are no specific restrictions, although we do have a simple [template](https://github.com/splunk/attack_data/blob/master/environments/TEMPLATE.md) a user can start with here. The most common environment for most datasets will be the [attack_range](https://github.com/splunk/attack_data/blob/master/environments/attack_range.md) since this is the tool that used to generate attack data sets automatically.



# Replay Datasets 📼

Most datasets generated will be raw log files. There are two main simple ways to ingest it.



### Into Splunk



##### using replay.py

pre-requisite, clone, create virtual env and install python deps:



```

git clone [email protected]:splunk/attack_data.git

cd attack_data

pip install virtualenv

virtualenv venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip install -r bin/requirements.txt

```



0. Download dataset 

1. configure [`bin/replay.yml`](/bin/replay.yml) 

2. run `python bin/replay.py -c bin/replay.yml`



##### using UI



0. Download dataset

1. In Splunk enterprise , add data -> Files & Directories -> select dataset

2. Set the sourcetype as specified in the YML file

3. Explore your data



See a quick demo 📺 of this process [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NAG0zGg40).



### Into DSP



To send datasets into DSP the simplest way is to use the [scloud](https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DSP/1.1.0/Admin/AuthenticatewithSCloud) command-line-tool as a requirement.



1. Download the dataset

2. Ingest the dataset into DSP via scloud command `cat attack_data.json | scloud ingest post-events --format JSON

3. Build a pipeline that reads from the firehose and you should see the events.



# Contribute Datasets 🥰



1. Generate a dataset

2. Under the corresponding MITRE Technique ID folder create a folder named after the tool the dataset comes from, for example: `atomic_red_Team`

3. Make PR with .yml file under the corresponding created folder, upload dataset into the same folder.



See [T1003.002](datasets/attack_techniques/T1003.003/atomic_red_team/) for a complete example.



Note the simplest way to generate a dataset to contribute is to launch your simulations in the attack_range, or manually attack the machines and when done dump the data using the [dump function](https://github.com/splunk/attack_range#dump-log-data-from-attack-range).



See a quick demo 📺 of the process to dump a dataset [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnD0BtjCILs).



To contribute a dataset simply create a PR on this repository, for general instructions on creating a PR [see this guide](https://gist.github.com/Chaser324/ce0505fbed06b947d962).



# Automatically generated Datasets ⚙️



This project takes advantage of automation to generate datasets using the attack_range. You can see details about this service on this [sub-project folder attack_data_service](https://github.com/splunk/attack_data/tree/master/attack_data_service).



## Author

* [Patrick Bareiß](https://twitter.com/bareiss_patrick)

* [Jose Hernandez](https://twitter.com/d1vious)



## License



Copyright 2023 Splunk Inc.



Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at



http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0



Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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