AWS Deletion of RDS Instance or Cluster

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

Identifies the deletion of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database cluster, global database cluster, or database instance.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

• filebeat-*
• logs-aws*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

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://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/rds/delete-db-cluster.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteDBCluster.html
• https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/rds/delete-global-cluster.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteGlobalCluster.html
• https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/rds/delete-db-instance.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteDBInstance.html

Tags:

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

Version: 7

Rule authors:

• Elastic

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:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:(DeleteDBCluster or DeleteGlobalCluster or DeleteDBInstance)
and event.outcome:success

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

• Tactic:

  • Name: Impact
  • ID: TA0040
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/

• Technique:

  • Name: Data Destruction
  • ID: T1485
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1485/