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Suspicious activity

Native source identity and targetable endpoints are private.

criticalopen
Confidence
99%
First seen
Sep 1, 6:39:49 PM PDT
Evidence through
Sep 1, 6:42:09 PM PDT
AI status
Complete
Indeterminate93% confidence

The detector's critical suspicious-activity output is supported at the consequence level: event-driven telemetry observed a root-context dash shell in the processor workload and a root-context child id discovery process, followed by zero-result exits. However, the available evidence does not establish whether this execution was malicious, authorized workload behavior, or administrative/testing activity. No incident-cited HTTP or flow evidence was available to establish an originating request, actor, request-to-process causal edge, or network consequence. Therefore, execution and discovery are confirmed, while exploitation or compromise remains indeterminate.

Attack stage
Execution and system discovery; origin and authorization unknown
Model
gpt-5.6-sol · 8 evidence calls

Observed impact

  • A root-context shell and a child identity-discovery utility executed inside the processor workload.
  • The sampled shell and discovery process exited successfully; this confirms completed execution, not malicious purpose.
  • No supported impact beyond in-workload command execution and discovery can be established from the cited evidence.

Deterministic signals

Process.observed discovery command88%

An event-driven discovery command was observed in a protected workload without correlated HTTP evidence

402 observations · 12 process
Process.observed shell spawn99%

An event-driven shell execution was observed in a protected workload without correlated HTTP evidence

384 observations · 12 process
Process.correlated exit99%

A previously correlated process lifecycle exited

494 observations · 12 process

Explicit uncertainty

  • No incident-cited HTTP evidence was available through the bounded evidence interface, so the originating action, request, and request-to-process causality cannot be determined.
  • No incident-cited flow evidence was available through the bounded evidence interface, so outbound network consequences and request-to-socket causality cannot be assessed.
  • The workload-cluster source key is not a verified human or remote-actor identity.
  • The evidence does not establish whether the shell and discovery commands were expected processor behavior, an authorized administrative/test action, or unauthorized execution.
  • The evidence does not prove persistence, host escape, lateral movement, command-and-control, credential or secret access, or data theft.

Recommended actions

  1. Immediately validate the processor workload's expected command-execution behavior, deployment history, scheduled jobs, task inputs, and administrative activity for 2026-09-02T01[redacted]49Z–[redacted]09Z.
  2. Trace the observed parent lineage in retained workload and orchestrator telemetry to identify the long-lived parent process and the job, queue item, or control-plane action that initiated the shells.
  3. Preserve process, container, application, orchestrator audit, and gateway telemetry for the incident window; correlate them externally with authentication and request logs because no HTTP causal evidence is available here.
  4. If the executions are not expected or remain active, contain the affected workload instance, rotate secrets accessible to it, and replace it from a known-good image according to incident-response policy.
  5. Review whether the processor requires root privileges and shell/discovery utilities; reduce privileges and remove unnecessary tooling where operationally feasible.
  6. Scope adjacent telemetry for unauthorized file changes, persistence mechanisms, secret access, or unusual network activity, while avoiding assumptions that these consequences occurred.