AWS EC2 VM Export Failure

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

Identifies an attempt to export an AWS EC2 instance. A virtual machine (VM) export may indicate an attempt to extract or exfiltrate information.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

• filebeat-*
• logs-aws*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 10m

Searches indices from: now-60m (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#date-math[Date Math format], see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport.html#export-instance

Tags:

• Elastic
• Cloud
• AWS
• Continuous Monitoring
• SecOps
• Asset Visibility

Version: 1

Rule authors:

• Elastic
• Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

The AWS Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:ec2.amazonaws.com and event.action:CreateInstanceExportTask and event.outcome:failure

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

• Tactic:

  • Name: Exfiltration
  • ID: TA0010
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0010/

• Technique:

  • Name: Transfer Data to Cloud Account
  • ID: T1537
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1537/

• Tactic:

  • Name: Collection
  • ID: TA0009
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/

• Technique:

  • Name: Data from Local System
  • ID: T1005
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1005/