Detection: ASL AWS Excessive Security Scanning

DEPRECATED DETECTION

This detection has been marked as deprecated by the Splunk Threat Research team. This means that it will no longer be maintained or supported. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at research@splunk.com.

Updated Date: 2024-10-17 ID: ff2bfdbc-65b7-4434-8f08-d55761d1d446 Author: Patrick Bareiss, Splunk Type: Anomaly Product: Splunk Enterprise Security

Description

This search looks for AWS CloudTrail events and analyse the amount of eventNames which starts with Describe by a single user. This indicates that this user scans the configuration of your AWS cloud environment.

Search

1`amazon_security_lake` api.operation=Describe* OR api.operation=List* OR api.operation=Get* 
2| stats dc(api.operation) as dc_api_operations min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(http_request.user_agent) as http_request.user_agent values(src_endpoint.ip) as src_endpoint.ip values(cloud.region) as cloud.region values(identity.user.account_uid) as identity.user.account_uid by identity.user.name 
3| where dc_api_operations > 50 
4| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
5| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
6|`asl_aws_excessive_security_scanning_filter`

Data Source

No data sources specified for this detection.

Macros Used

Name	Value
amazon_security_lake	`sourcetype=aws:cloudtrail:lake`

Annotations

- MITRE ATT&CK

+ Kill Chain Phases

+ NIST

+ CIS

- Threat Actors

ID	Technique	Tactic
T1526	Cloud Service Discovery	Discovery

KillChainPhase.EXPLOITAITON

NistCategory.DE_AE

Cis18Value.CIS_13

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	True

This configuration file applies to all detections of type anomaly. These detections will use Risk Based Alerting.

Implementation

You must install Splunk Add-On for AWS Version v7.0.0 (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1876) that includes includes a merge of all the capabilities of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Security Lake. This search works with Amazon Security Lake logs which are parsed in the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)format.

Known False Positives

While this search has no known false positives.

Associated Analytic Story

AWS User Monitoring

Risk Based Analytics (RBA)

Risk Message	Risk Score	Impact	Confidence
user $identity.user.name$ has excessive number of api calls.	18	30	60

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

https://github.com/aquasecurity/cloudsploit

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