ID | Technique | Tactic |
---|---|---|
T1567.002 | Exfiltration to Cloud Storage | Exfiltration |
T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | Exfiltration |
Detection: Gsuite Drive Share In External Email
EXPERIMENTAL DETECTION
This detection status is set to experimental. The Splunk Threat Research team has not yet fully tested, simulated, or built comprehensive datasets for this detection. As such, this analytic is not officially supported. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at research@splunk.com.
Description
The following analytic detects Google Drive or Google Docs files shared externally from an internal domain. It leverages GSuite Drive logs, extracting and comparing the source and destination email domains to identify external sharing. This activity is significant as it may indicate potential data exfiltration by an attacker or insider. If confirmed malicious, this could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, data leakage, and potential compliance violations. Monitoring this behavior helps in early detection and mitigation of data breaches.
Search
1`gsuite_drive` NOT (email IN("", "null"))
2| rex field=parameters.owner "[^@]+@(?<src_domain>[^@]+)"
3| rex field=email "[^@]+@(?<dest_domain>[^@]+)"
4| where src_domain = "internal_test_email.com" and not dest_domain = "internal_test_email.com"
5| eval phase="plan"
6| eval severity="low"
7| stats values(parameters.doc_title) as doc_title, values(parameters.doc_type) as doc_types, values(email) as dst_email_list, values(parameters.visibility) as visibility, values(parameters.doc_id) as doc_id, count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by parameters.owner ip_address phase severity
8| rename parameters.owner as user ip_address as src_ip
9| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
10| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
11| `gsuite_drive_share_in_external_email_filter`
Data Source
Name | Platform | Sourcetype | Source |
---|---|---|---|
G Suite Drive | N/A | 'gsuite:drive:json' |
'http:gsuite' |
Macros Used
Name | Value |
---|---|
gsuite_drive | sourcetype=gsuite:drive:json |
gsuite_drive_share_in_external_email_filter | search * |
gsuite_drive_share_in_external_email_filter
is an empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.
Annotations
Default Configuration
This detection is configured by default in Splunk Enterprise Security to run with the following settings:
Setting | Value |
---|---|
Disabled | true |
Cron Schedule | 0 * * * * |
Earliest Time | -70m@m |
Latest Time | -10m@m |
Schedule Window | auto |
Creates Risk Event | True |
Implementation
To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting logs related to gsuite having the file attachment metadata like file type, file extension, source email, destination email, num of attachment and etc. In order for the search to work for your environment, please edit the query to use your company specific email domain instead of internal_test_email.com
.
Known False Positives
network admin or normal user may share files to customer and external team.
Associated Analytic Story
Risk Based Analytics (RBA)
Risk Message | Risk Score | Impact | Confidence |
---|---|---|---|
suspicious share gdrive from $parameters.owner$ to $email$ namely as $parameters.doc_title$ | 72 | 80 | 90 |
References
Detection Testing
Test Type | Status | Dataset | Source | Sourcetype |
---|---|---|---|---|
Validation | Not Applicable | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Unit | ✅ Passing | Dataset | http:gsuite |
gsuite:drive:json |
Integration | ✅ Passing | Dataset | http:gsuite |
gsuite:drive:json |
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
Source: GitHub | Version: 3