Peirates — Attack Tool

Peirates is a post-exploitation Kubernetes exploitation framework with a focus on gathering service account tokens for lateral movement and privilege escalation. The tool is written in GoLang and publicly available on GitHub.

Tool identity and evidence

Included because the active pinned ATT&CK object has type tool. This is an upstream classification, not an assurance of benignness or a recommendation to run it.

Aliases: Peirates

Primary tool reference

Existing author guides

No reviewed association in this snapshot.

Primary documentation

No reviewed association in this snapshot.

Connected ecosystem references

Linked tags

attack_tool attack_uses

Documented actor use

Explicit actor-to-software uses relationships in the pinned ATT&CK source. These links are historical behavior context, not attribution of current events.

TeamTNT · G0139 · Pinned relationship source (relationship--6d887394-6007-451e-beb9-0ce76b58ebc3)

Technique-specific simulations and detections

Detection links describe the associated behavior, not independently verified tool-specific signatures.

Telemetry context

Derived from the explicitly linked TTPs; not proof of sensor coverage for this tool.

Pinned research references. No browser attack runner, live simulation result or validated detector is asserted. Source mappings and validation limits are preserved. ATT&CK / Atomic provenance · Detection provenance.