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GCP Virtual Private Cloud Route Creation

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GCP Virtual Private Cloud Route Creation

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Identifies when a virtual private cloud (VPC) route is created in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google Cloud routes define the paths that network traffic takes from a virtual machine (VM) instance to other destinations. These destinations can be inside a Google VPC network or outside it. An adversary may create a route in order to impact the flow of network traffic in their target’s cloud environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-gcp*

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
Configuration Audit
Defense Evasion

Version: 9 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Virtual Private Cloud routes may be created by system administrators. Verify that the configuration change was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:gcp.audit and event.action:(v*.compute.routes.insert or
"beta.compute.routes.insert")

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
Technique:
- Name: Impair Defenses
- ID: T1562
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/

Rule version history

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Version 9 (8.4.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and
event.action:(v*.compute.routes.insert or
"beta.compute.routes.insert")

Version 7 (8.1.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 6 (8.0.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 5 (7.13.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and
event.action:(v*.compute.routes.insert or beta.compute.routes.insert)

Version 4 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.11.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:googlecloud.audit and
event.action:(v*.compute.routes.insert or beta.compute.routes.insert)

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