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name: AWS Defense Evasion Impair Security Services
id: b28c4957-96a6-47e0-a965-6c767aac1458
version: 7
date: '2025-05-02'
version: 8
date: '2025-05-22'
author: Bhavin Patel, Gowthamaraj Rajendran, Splunk
status: production
type: Hunting
type: TTP
description: The following analytic detects attempts to delete critical AWS security
service configurations, such as CloudWatch alarms, GuardDuty detectors, and Web
Application Firewall rules. It leverages CloudTrail logs to identify specific API
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- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/guardduty/index.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/waf/index.html
- https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/prebuilt-rules.html
drilldown_searches:
- name: View the detection results for - "$user$"
search: '%original_detection_search% | search user = "$user$"'
earliest_offset: $info_min_time$
latest_offset: $info_max_time$
- name: View risk events for the last 7 days for - "$user$"
search: '| from datamodel Risk.All_Risk | search normalized_risk_object IN ("$user$")
starthoursago=168 | stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime
values(search_name) as "Search Name" values(risk_message) as "Risk Message" values(analyticstories)
as "Analytic Stories" values(annotations._all) as "Annotations" values(annotations.mitre_attack.mitre_tactic)
as "ATT&CK Tactics" by normalized_risk_object | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`'
earliest_offset: $info_min_time$
latest_offset: $info_max_time$
rba:
message: User $user$ has deleted a security service by attempting to $signature$ for account id $vendor_account$
from IP $src$
risk_objects:
- field: user
type: user
score: 90
threat_objects:
- field: src
type: ip_address
tags:
analytic_story:
- AWS Defense Evasion
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