Detection: Gdrive suspicious file sharing

EXPERIMENTAL DETECTION

This detection status is set to experimental. The Splunk Threat Research team has not yet fully tested, simulated, or built comprehensive datasets for this detection. As such, this analytic is not officially supported. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at research@splunk.com.

Updated Date: 2024-10-17 ID: a7131dae-34e3-11ec-a2de-acde48001122 Author: Rod Soto, Teoderick Contreras Type: Hunting Product: Splunk Enterprise Security

Description

The following analytic identifies suspicious file-sharing activity on Google Drive, where internal users share documents with more than 50 external recipients. It leverages GSuite Drive logs, focusing on changes in user access and filtering for emails outside the organization's domain. This activity is significant as it may indicate compromised accounts or intentional data exfiltration. If confirmed malicious, this behavior could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, data leaks, and potential compliance violations.

1`gsuite_drive` name=change_user_access 
2| rename parameters.* as * 
3| search email = "*@yourdomain.com" target_user != "*@yourdomain.com" 
4| stats count values(owner) as owner values(target_user) as target values(doc_type) as doc_type values(doc_title) as doc_title dc(target_user) as distinct_target by src_ip email 
5| where distinct_target > 50 
6| `gdrive_suspicious_file_sharing_filter`

Data Source

No data sources specified for this detection.

Macros Used

Name Value
gsuite_drive sourcetype=gsuite:drive:json
gdrive_suspicious_file_sharing_filter search *
gdrive_suspicious_file_sharing_filter is an empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Annotations

- MITRE ATT&CK
+ Kill Chain Phases
+ NIST
+ CIS
- Threat Actors
ID Technique Tactic
T1566 Phishing Initial Access
KillChainPhase.DELIVERY
NistCategory.DE_AE
Cis18Value.CIS_10
Axiom
GOLD SOUTHFIELD
INC Ransom

Default Configuration

This detection is configured by default in Splunk Enterprise Security to run with the following settings:

Setting Value
Disabled true
Cron Schedule 0 * * * *
Earliest Time -70m@m
Latest Time -10m@m
Schedule Window auto
Creates Risk Event False
This configuration file applies to all detections of type hunting.

Implementation

Need to implement Gsuite logging targeting Google suite drive activity. In order for the search to work for your environment please update yourdomain.com value in the query with the domain relavant for your organization.

Known False Positives

This is an anomaly search, you must specify your domain in the parameters so it either filters outside domains or focus on internal domains. This search may also help investigate compromise of accounts. By looking at for example source ip addresses, document titles and abnormal number of shares and shared target users.

Associated Analytic Story

Risk Based Analytics (RBA)

Risk Message Risk Score Impact Confidence
tbd 25 50 50
The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.

References

Detection Testing

Test Type Status Dataset Source Sourcetype
Validation Not Applicable N/A N/A N/A
Unit ❌ Failing N/A N/A N/A
Integration ❌ Failing N/A N/A N/A

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Source: GitHub | Version: 3