Boss of the SOC (BOTS) Dataset

This page describe BOTS Dataset released by Splunk.

Introduction

Boss of the SOC (BOTS) Datasets, are security event Datasets released by Splunk.

BOTS Datasets contain multiple attack scenarios and are used during Blue Team CTF events along with a Scoring Server, released by Splunk too.

BOTS Datasets can be use for :

• Detection rules testing.

• Ingestion and processing pipeline testing.

• Security events enrichements testing.

• Training.

• Many other things.

Download

Multiple version of BOTS Dataset are available, in different formats (Splunk Pre-Index, JSON, CSV). Download links of original BOTS files can be found here :

BOTSv1 : https://github.com/splunk/botsv1

BOTSv2 : https://github.com/splunk/botsv2

Scoring App (Require Splunk): https://github.com/splunk/SA-ctf_scoreboard

Additional resources

For training, here is a blog post containing tips for hunting with Splunk, tips also valid and reusable for hunting with Elastic : https://www.splunk.com/blog/2017/07/06/hunting-with-splunk-the-basics.html