GCP Pub/Sub Subscription Creation
editGCP Pub/Sub Subscription Creation
editIdentifies the creation of a subscription in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In GCP, the publisher-subscriber relationship (Pub/Sub) is an asynchronous messaging service that decouples event-producing and event-processing services. A subscription is a named resource representing the stream of messages to be delivered to the subscribing application.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- GCP
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Log Auditing
Version: 1
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Potential false positives
editSubscription creations may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user email, resource name, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Subscription creations from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.
Investigation guide
editThe GCP Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.
Rule query
editevent.dataset:googlecloud.audit and event.action:google.pubsub.v*.Subscriber.CreateSubscription and event.outcome:success
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Collection
- ID: TA0009
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/
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Technique:
- Name: Data from Cloud Storage Object
- ID: T1530
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1530/