AWS RDS Security Group Deletion
Identifies the deletion of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Security group.
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1[metadata]
2creation_date = "2021/06/05"
3integration = ["aws"]
4maturity = "production"
5min_stack_comments = "New fields added: required_fields, related_integrations, setup"
6min_stack_version = "8.3.0"
7updated_date = "2023/03/06"
8
9[rule]
10author = ["Elastic", "Austin Songer"]
11description = "Identifies the deletion of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Security group."
12false_positives = [
13 """
14 An RDS security group deletion may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user identity,
15 user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Security group deletions by unfamiliar
16 users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the
17 rule.
18 """,
19]
20from = "now-60m"
21index = ["filebeat-*", "logs-aws*"]
22interval = "10m"
23language = "kuery"
24license = "Elastic License v2"
25name = "AWS RDS Security Group Deletion"
26note = """## Setup
27
28The AWS Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule."""
29references = ["https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteDBSecurityGroup.html"]
30risk_score = 21
31rule_id = "863cdf31-7fd3-41cf-a185-681237ea277b"
32severity = "low"
33tags = ["Elastic", "Cloud", "AWS", "Amazon Web Services", "Continuous Monitoring", "SecOps", "Monitoring"]
34timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
35type = "query"
36
37query = '''
38event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:DeleteDBSecurityGroup and event.outcome:success
39'''
40
41
42[[rule.threat]]
43framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
44[[rule.threat.technique]]
45id = "T1531"
46name = "Account Access Removal"
47reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1531/"
48
49
50[rule.threat.tactic]
51id = "TA0040"
52name = "Impact"
53reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/"
Setup
The AWS Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.