AWS RDS Security Group Creation
editAWS RDS Security Group Creation
editIdentifies the creation of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Security group.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-aws*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 10 minutes
Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- AWS
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Monitoring
Version: 5 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.14.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0
Rule authors: Elastic, Austin Songer
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positives
editAn RDS security group may be created by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Security group creations by unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.
Investigation guide
editRule query
editevent.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:CreateDBSecurityGroup and event.outcome:success
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Create Account
- ID: T1136
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1136/
Rule version history
edit- Version 5 (8.4.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (8.1.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.15.0 release)
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- Formatting only