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Ingress/Egress Security Group Modification

Detects when an account makes changes to the ingress or egress rules of a security group. This can indicate that an attacker is attempting to open up new attack vectors in the account, that they are trying to exfiltrate data over the network, or that they are trying to allow machines in that VPC/Subnet to contact a C&C server.

MITRE ATT&CK

T1190

initial-access

Detection Query

selection:
  eventSource: ec2.amazonaws.com
  eventName:
    - AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress
    - AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress
    - RevokeSecurityGroupEgress
    - RevokeSecurityGroupIngress
condition: selection

Author

jamesc-grafana

Created

2024-07-11

Data Sources

awscloudtrail

Platforms

aws

References

https://www.gorillastack.com/blog/real-time-events/important-aws-cloudtrail-security-events-tracking/

Tags

attack.initial-accessattack.t1190

Raw Content

title: Ingress/Egress Security Group Modification
id: 6fb77778-040f-4015-9440-572aa9b6b580
status: test
description: |
    Detects when an account makes changes to the ingress or egress rules of a security group.
    This can indicate that an attacker is attempting to open up new attack vectors in the account, that they are trying to exfiltrate data over the network, or that they are trying to allow machines in that VPC/Subnet to contact a C&C server.
references:
    - https://www.gorillastack.com/blog/real-time-events/important-aws-cloudtrail-security-events-tracking/
author: jamesc-grafana
date: 2024-07-11
tags:
    - attack.initial-access
    - attack.t1190
logsource:
    product: aws
    service: cloudtrail
detection:
    selection:
        eventSource: 'ec2.amazonaws.com'
        eventName:
            - 'AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress'
            - 'AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress'
            - 'RevokeSecurityGroupEgress'
            - 'RevokeSecurityGroupIngress'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - New VPCs and Subnets being setup requiring a different security profile to those already defined
    - A single port being opened for a new service that is known to be deploying
    - Administrators closing unused ports to reduce the attack surface
level: medium