GCP Service Account Deletion

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Identifies when a service account is deleted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). A service account is a special type of account used by an application or a virtual machine (VM) instance, not a person. Applications use service accounts to make authorized API calls, authorized as either the service account itself, or as G Suite or Cloud Identity users through domain-wide delegation. An adversary may delete a service account in order to disrupt their target’s business operations.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-gcp*

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

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • GCP
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Identity and Access

Version: 103

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:gcp.audit and event.action:google.iam.admin.v*.DeleteServiceAccount and event.outcome:success

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM