Stratus Red Team

Stratus Red Team is "Atomic Red Team™" for the cloud, providing granular and self-contained emulation of offensive attack techniques.

Announcement blog posts:

• https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cyber-attack-simulation-with-stratus-red-team/
• https://blog.christophetd.fr/introducing-stratus-red-team-an-adversary-emulation-tool-for-the-cloud/

Getting Started

Stratus Red Team is a self-contained Go binary.

See the documentation at stratus-red-team.cloud:

• Stratus Red Team Concepts
• Installing Stratus Red Team - Homebrew formula, Docker image, and pre-built binaries available
• Available Attack Techniques, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK

Installation

Direct install

Requires Go 1.23+

go install -v github.com/datadog/stratus-red-team/v2/cmd/stratus@latest

Homebrew

brew tap datadog/stratus-red-team https://github.com/DataDog/stratus-red-team
brew install datadog/stratus-red-team/stratus-red-team

Pre-built binaries

For Linux, Windows, and macOS: download one of the pre-built binaries.

Docker

IMAGE="ghcr.io/datadog/stratus-red-team"
alias stratus="docker run --rm -v $HOME/.stratus-red-team/:/root/.stratus-red-team/ -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY -e AWS_SESSION_TOKEN -e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION $IMAGE"

asdf

Install specific versions of stratus-red-team using asdf and the stratus-red-team plugin:

asdf plugin add stratus-red-team https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-stratus-red-team.git
asdf install stratus-red-team latest

Community

Posts and projects from the community:

Open-source projects:

• Threatest
• AWS Threat Detection with Stratus Red Team

Videos:

• Reproducing common attacks in the cloud with Stratus Red Team
• Stratus Red Team: AWS EC2 Instance Credential Theft | Threat SnapShot
• Automated Attack Simulation in AWS for Red Teaming

Blog posts:

• AWS threat emulation and detection validation with Stratus Red Team and Datadog Cloud SIEM
• Adversary emulation on AWS with Stratus Red Team and Wazuh
• Sky's the Limit: Stratus Red Team for Azure
• Detecting realistic AWS cloud-attacks using Azure Sentinel
• A Data Driven Comparison of Open Source Adversary Emulation Tools
• Making Security Relevant in the Cloud
• Detonating attacks with Datadog Stratus Red Team
• AWS CloudTrail cheatsheet
• Adversary emulation on GCP with Stratus Red Team and Wazuh
• Automated First-Response in AWS using Sigma and Athena
• AWS Cloud Detection Lab: Cloud Pen-testing with Stratus Red Team

Talks:

• Purple Teaming & Adversary Emulation in the Cloud with Stratus Red Team, DEF CON Cloud Village 2022
• Threat-Driven Development with Stratus Red Team by Ryan Marcotte Cobb
• Cloudy With a Chance of Purple Rain: Leveraging Stratus Red Team - BSides Portland 2022

Papers:

• A Purple Team Approach to Attack Automation in the Cloud Native Environment

Using Stratus Red Team as a Go Library

See Examples and Programmatic Usage.

Development

Building Locally

make
./bin/stratus --help

Running Locally

go run cmd/stratus/*.go list

Running the Tests

make test

Building the Documentation

For local usage:

pip install mkdocs-material mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin

make docs
mkdocs serve

Acknowledgments

Core maintainers: Christophe Tafani-Dereeper (@christophetd), Simon Maréchal (@Minosity-VR).

Similar projects (see how Stratus Red Team compares):

• Atomic Red Team by Red Canary
• Leonidas by F-Secure
• pacu by Rhino Security Labs
• Amazon GuardDuty Tester
• CloudGoat by Rhino Security Labs

Inspiration and relevant resources:

• https://expel.io/blog/mind-map-for-aws-investigations/
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/aws-privilege-escalation-methods-mitigation/
• https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules/tree/main/rules/integrations/aws

Skills

The following agent skills are available in this repository:

• create-attack-technique - Scaffolds and reviews new attack techniques for AWS, Azure, GCP, Entra ID, and Kubernetes, following the project's style and structure guidelines.
• test-attack-technique - Runs warmup, detonation, and cleanup phases for a given technique ID, validates cloud credentials, and produces an HTML report of results.
• map-threat-intel-coverage - Fetches a threat-intelligence report, extracts cloud TTPs, classifies each against existing Stratus Red Team coverage, and drafts GitHub issues for gaps.