Cloud Instance Modified By Previously Unseen User
THIS IS A EXPERIMENTAL DETECTION
This detection has been marked experimental by the Splunk Threat Research team. This means we have not been able to test, simulate, or build datasets for this detection. Use at your own risk. This analytic is NOT supported.
Description
This search looks for cloud instances being modified by users who have not previously modified them.
- Type: Anomaly
- Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
- Datamodel: Change
- Last Updated: 2020-07-29
- Author: Rico Valdez, Splunk
- ID: 7fb15084-b14e-405a-bd61-a6de15a40722
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- Actions on Objectives
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- ID.AM
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- CIS 1
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| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count earliest(_time) as firstTime, latest(_time) as lastTime values(All_Changes.object_id) as object_id values(All_Changes.command) as command from datamodel=Change where All_Changes.action=modified All_Changes.change_type=EC2 All_Changes.status=success by All_Changes.user
| `drop_dm_object_name("All_Changes")`
| lookup previously_seen_cloud_instance_modifications_by_user user as user OUTPUTNEW firstTimeSeen, enough_data
| eventstats max(enough_data) as enough_data
| where enough_data=1
| eval firstTimeSeenUser=min(firstTimeSeen)
| where isnull(firstTimeSeenUser) OR firstTimeSeenUser > relative_time(now(), "-24h@h")
| table firstTime user command object_id count
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `cloud_instance_modified_by_previously_unseen_user_filter`
Macros
The SPL above uses the following Macros:
cloud_instance_modified_by_previously_unseen_user_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.
Lookups
The SPL above uses the following Lookups:
Supported Add-on (TA)
List of Splunk Add-on’s tested to work with the analytic.
Required fields
List of fields required to use this analytic.
- _time
- All_Changes.object_id
- All_Changes.command
- All_Changes.action
- All_Changes.change_type
- All_Changes.status
- All_Changes.user
How To Implement
This search has a dependency on other searches to create and update a baseline of users observed to be associated with this activity. The search "Previously Seen Cloud Instance Modifications By User - Update" should be enabled for this detection to properly work.
Known False Positives
It's possible that a new user will start to modify EC2 instances when they haven't before for any number of reasons. Verify with the user that is modifying instances that this is the intended behavior.
Associated Analytic Story
RBA
Risk Score | Impact | Confidence | Message |
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42.0 | 70 | 60 | User $user$ is modifying an instance $dest$ for the first time. |
The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.
Reference
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