:warning: 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.

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Description

The following analytic identifies an AWS IAM account with concurrent sessions coming from more than one unique IP address within the span of 5 minutes. This behavior could represent a session hijacking attack whereby an adversary has extracted cookies from a victims browser and is using them from a different location to access corporate online resources. When a user navigates the AWS Console after authentication, the API call with the event name DescribeEventAggregates is registered in the AWS CloudTrail logs. The Splunk Threat Research team leveraged this event name to identify 2 concurrent sessions. The presence of this event occurring from two different IP addresses is highly unlikely. As users may behave differently across organizations, security teams should test and customize this detection to fit their environments.

  • Type: Anomaly

  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud

  • Last Updated: 2023-05-23
  • Author: Patrick Bareiss, Splunk
  • ID: b3424bbe-3204-4469-887b-ec144483a336

Annotations

ATT&CK

ATT&CK

ID Technique Tactic
T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Kill Chain Phase
  • Exploitation
NIST
  • DE.AE
CIS20
  • CIS 10
CVE 


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 `amazon_security_lake` api.operation=DescribeEventAggregates src_endpoint.domain!="AWS Internal" 
| bin span=5m _time 
| stats values(src_endpoint.ip) as src_endpoint.ip dc(src_endpoint.ip) as distinct_ip_count by _time identity.user.credential_uid identity.user.name 
| where distinct_ip_count > 1 
| `aws_concurrent_sessions_from_different_ips_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

:information_source: asl_aws_concurrent_sessions_from_different_ips_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required fields

List of fields required to use this analytic.

  • _time
  • api.operation
  • src_endpoint.domain
  • src_endpoint.ip
  • identity.user.credential_uid
  • identity.user.name

How To Implement

You must install Splunk Add-On for AWS Version v7.0.0 (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1876) that includes includes a merge of all the capabilities of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Security Lake. This search works with Amazon Security Lake logs which are parsed in the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)format.

Known False Positives

A user with concurrent sessions from different Ips may also represent the legitimate use of more than one device. Filter as needed and/or customize the threshold to fit your environment.

Associated Analytic Story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
42.0 70 60 User $identity.user.name$ has concurrent sessions from more than one unique IP address $src_endpoint.ip$ in the span of 5 minutes.

:information_source: 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

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

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