Identifies attempts to suppress or blind Amazon GuardDuty without deleting the detector outright. Adversaries with GuardDuty permissions can create or update a trusted IP set (CreateIPSet/UpdateIPSet) so that traffic from listed addresses is never flagged, tamper with the threat intelligence feed used to generate findings (CreateThreatIntelSet/UpdateThreatIntelSet), or soft-disable the detector via UpdateDetector with Enable set to false. All three techniques leave the detector itself intact, evading detections that only look for detector deletion.

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Detects the deletion of an Amazon GuardDuty detector. GuardDuty provides continuous monitoring for malicious or unauthorized activity across AWS accounts. Deleting the detector disables this visibility, stopping all threat detection and removing existing findings. Adversaries may delete GuardDuty detectors to impair security monitoring and evade detection during or after an intrusion. This rule identifies successful "DeleteDetector" API calls and can indicate a deliberate defense evasion attempt.

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Detects attempts to disassociate or manipulate Amazon GuardDuty member accounts within an AWS organization. In multi-account GuardDuty deployments, a delegated administrator account aggregates findings from member accounts. Adversaries may attempt to disassociate member accounts, delete member relationships, stop monitoring members, or delete pending invitations to break this centralized visibility. These actions can be precursors to or alternatives for deleting GuardDuty detectors entirely, allowing attackers to operate undetected in member accounts while the administrator account loses visibility. This rule identifies successful API calls that manipulate GuardDuty member relationships, which are rare in normal operations and warrant immediate investigation.

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Detects the deletion of an Amazon GuardDuty publishing destination. Publishing destinations export GuardDuty findings to S3, Security Lake, or EventBridge for long-term retention and SIEM ingestion. An adversary with GuardDuty administrative access may delete a publishing destination to prevent findings from reaching external storage or a security operations center, reducing the visibility of their activity while leaving the GuardDuty detector active.

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Detects the deletion of an Amazon GuardDuty threat intelligence set. Threat intelligence sets are custom lists of known-malicious IP addresses or domains that GuardDuty uses to generate findings when monitored resources communicate with those indicators. Deleting a threat intel set degrades GuardDuty's detection capability for known adversary infrastructure, allowing communication with threat-actor-controlled IP ranges to go undetected.

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