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AWS GuardDuty Important Change — Sigma Rule

Sigma rule 6e61ee20-ce00-4f8d-8aee-bedd8216f7e3. AWS GuardDuty Important Change — Sigma Rule. Detects updates of the GuardDuty list of trusted IPs, perhaps to disable security alerts against malicious IPs.

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Author: faloker. Source status: test; severity: high. Source dates: 2020-02-11 / 2022-10-09.

{
  "product": "aws",
  "service": "cloudtrail"
}

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Source SHA-256: b82f5f5ef3080814b9bbf019a07f7ddf0313afd1e08b8eca3e5331b6bbf3a01c

Detection logic

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title: AWS GuardDuty Important Change
id: 6e61ee20-ce00-4f8d-8aee-bedd8216f7e3
status: test
description: Detects updates of the GuardDuty list of trusted IPs, perhaps to disable security alerts against malicious IPs.
references:
    - https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu/blob/866376cd711666c775bbfcde0524c817f2c5b181/pacu/modules/guardduty__whitelist_ip/main.py#L9
author: faloker
date: 2020-02-11
modified: 2022-10-09
tags:
    - attack.defense-impairment
    - attack.t1685
logsource:
    product: aws
    service: cloudtrail
detection:
    selection_source:
        eventSource: guardduty.amazonaws.com
        eventName: CreateIPSet
    condition: selection_source
falsepositives:
    - Valid change in the GuardDuty (e.g. to ignore internal scanners)
level: high

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False positives

  • Valid change in the GuardDuty (e.g. to ignore internal scanners)

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