IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

« AWS RDS Snapshot Export AWS EventBridge Rule Disabled or Deleted »

› ›

AWS RDS Snapshot Restored

edit

AWS RDS Snapshot Restored

edit

Identifies when an attempt was made to restore an RDS Snapshot. Snapshots are sometimes shared by threat actors in order to exfiltrate bulk data. If the permissions were modified, verify if the snapshot was shared with an unauthorized or unexpected AWS account.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-aws*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: None (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Asset Visibility

Version: 2

Rule authors:

Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

edit

## Config

The AWS Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

edit

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:RestoreDBInstanceFromDBSnapshot and
event.outcome:success

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Exfiltration
- ID: TA0010
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0010/

« AWS RDS Snapshot Export AWS EventBridge Rule Disabled or Deleted »