AWS RDS Snapshot Export

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

Identifies the export of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database snapshot.

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/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_StartExportTask.html

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Asset Visibility

Version: 3

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

Config

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

Rule query

		event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:StartExportTask and event.outcome:success

	

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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