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Description

The following analytic utilizes AWS CloudTrail events to identify when an EC2 snapshot permissions are modified to be shared with a different AWS account. This method is used by adversaries to exfiltrate the EC2 snapshot.

  • Type: TTP

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

  • Last Updated: 2021-07-20
  • Author: Bhavin Patel, Splunk
  • ID: 2a9b80d3-6340-4345-b5ad-290bf3d222c4

Annotations

ATT&CK
ID Technique Tactic
T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account Exfiltration
Kill Chain Phase
  • Actions on Objectives
NIST
  • PR.DS
  • PR.AC
  • DE.CM
CIS20
  • CIS 13
CVE 
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`cloudtrail` eventName=ModifySnapshotAttribute 
| rename requestParameters.createVolumePermission.add.items{}.userId as requested_account_id 
| search requested_account_id != NULL 
| eval match=if(requested_account_id==aws_account_id,"Match","No Match") 
| table _time user_arn src_ip requestParameters.attributeType requested_account_id aws_account_id match vendor_region user_agent 
| where match = "No Match" 
| `detect_shared_ec2_snapshot_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

Note that detect_shared_ec2_snapshot_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required field

  • _time
  • eventName
  • user_arn
  • src_ip
  • requestParameters.attributeType
  • aws_account_id
  • vendor_region
  • user_agent

How To Implement

You must install splunk AWS add on and Splunk App for AWS. This search works with AWS CloudTrail logs.

Known False Positives

It is possible that an AWS admin has legitimately shared a snapshot with others for a specific purpose.

Associated Analytic story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
48.0 60 80 AWS EC2 snapshot from account $aws_account_id$ is shared with $requested_account_id$ by user $user_arn$ from $src_ip$

Reference

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