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AWS RDS Instance Creation

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AWS RDS Instance Creation

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Identifies the creation of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database instance.

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:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_CreateDBInstance.html

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Asset Visibility
Persistence

Version: 100 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.14.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0

Rule authors: Elastic, Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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A database instance 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. Instances 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

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Rule query

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

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/

Rule version history

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Version 100 (8.5.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 5 (8.4.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (8.1.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.16.0 release)

Formatting only

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