GCP Pub/Sub Topic Creation

Identifies the creation of a topic in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In GCP, the publisher-subscriber relationship (Pub/Sub) is an asynchronous messaging service that decouples event-producing and event-processing services. A topic is used to forward messages from publishers to subscribers.

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 1[metadata]
 2creation_date = "2020/09/23"
 3integration = ["gcp"]
 4maturity = "production"
 5min_stack_comments = "New fields added: required_fields, related_integrations, setup"
 6min_stack_version = "8.3.0"
 7updated_date = "2023/06/22"
 8
 9[rule]
10author = ["Elastic"]
11description = """
12Identifies the creation of a topic in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In GCP, the publisher-subscriber relationship
13(Pub/Sub) is an asynchronous messaging service that decouples event-producing and event-processing services. A topic is
14used to forward messages from publishers to subscribers.
15"""
16false_positives = [
17    """
18    Topic creations may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user email, resource name,
19    and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Topic creations by unfamiliar users or hosts should be
20    investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.
21    """,
22]
23index = ["filebeat-*", "logs-gcp*"]
24language = "kuery"
25license = "Elastic License v2"
26name = "GCP Pub/Sub Topic Creation"
27note = """## Setup
28
29The GCP Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule."""
30references = ["https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/admin"]
31risk_score = 21
32rule_id = "a10d3d9d-0f65-48f1-8b25-af175e2594f5"
33severity = "low"
34tags = ["Domain: Cloud", "Data Source: GCP", "Data Source: Google Cloud Platform", "Use Case: Log Auditing", "Tactic: Collection"]
35timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
36type = "query"
37
38query = '''
39event.dataset:gcp.audit and event.action:google.pubsub.v*.Publisher.CreateTopic and event.outcome:success
40'''
41
42
43[[rule.threat]]
44framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
45[[rule.threat.technique]]
46id = "T1530"
47name = "Data from Cloud Storage"
48reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1530/"
49
50
51[rule.threat.tactic]
52id = "TA0009"
53name = "Collection"
54reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/"

Setup

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

References

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