AWS EC2 VM Export Failure
An attempt to export an AWS EC2 instance has been detected. A VM Export might indicate an attempt to extract information from an instance.
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1title: AWS EC2 VM Export Failure
2id: 54b9a76a-3c71-4673-b4b3-2edb4566ea7b
3status: test
4description: An attempt to export an AWS EC2 instance has been detected. A VM Export might indicate an attempt to extract information from an instance.
5references:
6 - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport.html#export-instance
7author: Diogo Braz
8date: 2020-04-16
9modified: 2022-10-05
10tags:
11 - attack.collection
12 - attack.t1005
13 - attack.exfiltration
14 - attack.t1537
15logsource:
16 product: aws
17 service: cloudtrail
18detection:
19 selection:
20 eventName: 'CreateInstanceExportTask'
21 eventSource: 'ec2.amazonaws.com'
22 filter1:
23 errorMessage|contains: '*'
24 filter2:
25 errorCode|contains: '*'
26 filter3:
27 responseElements|contains: 'Failure'
28 condition: selection and not 1 of filter*
29level: low
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