Docker Hub Supply Chain: A Public Image on a Shared Build Runner
A platform engineer pulls a public Docker Hub image advertised as a network scanning utility onto a shared Linux build-runner. Hours later the host is still pinned at full CPU with its build queue drained, nothing deployed and no data alarms raised. Reconstruct what the image actually did on the host from endpoint XDR and perimeter firewall telemetry, and classify the key ATT&CK techniques.
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Investigation Tasks
Complete each task by investigating alerts and submitting your findings.
Incident brief
0Orient yourself before pivoting into the data. This is a no-answer briefing checkpoint.
Identify the malicious image
45Every later event traces back to one image pulled to the build-runner that morning. Identify it by its full repository and tag reference.
Classify how the container itself was the attack
40The malicious code did not arrive as a dropped binary; it arrived as the image. Identify the MITRE ATT&CK technique for running attacker logic by deploying a container.
Name the miner process
40Inside the container, one process is doing the actual mining. Identify the miner by the name it ran as.
Recover the mining pool the miner connected to
45The miner held a long-lived session to a public pool. Identify the pool it mined to.
Classify the operator's objective
40Name what the whole intrusion was for. Classify the impact technique the miner represents.
Recover the attacker's wallet
45Pin down the indicator that ties this build host to the operator's earnings. Provide the Monero wallet address the miner submitted shares for.
7 tasks · 255 points total
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Skills You'll Build
Requires foundational alert triage skills. Multiple data sources to correlate.
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of security alerts
- Familiarity with XDR concepts
- Familiarity with Firewall concepts
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