Aws Snapshot Exfil

Description

Adversaries may exfiltrate data by transferring the data, including backups of cloud environments, to another cloud account they control on the same service to avoid typical file transfers/downloads and network-based exfiltration detection.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account Exfiltration

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory aws_snapshot_exfil
Test Date 2021-07-20

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Aws_cloudtrail_events-Json

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1537/aws_snapshot_exfil/aws_cloudtrail_events.json
  • Sourcetype: aws:cloudtrail
  • Source: aws_cloudtrail

Asl_ocsf_cloudtrail-Json

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1537/aws_snapshot_exfil/asl_ocsf_cloudtrail.json
  • Sourcetype: aws:cloudtrail:lake
  • Source: aws_asl

No specific detections currently use this attack data for testing. However, you can find related detections and analytics in our security content repository.

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1537/aws_snapshot_exfil/aws_cloudtrail_events.json --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0