Elastic Security Detection Rules

Rapid Secret Retrieval Attempts from AWS SecretsManager

Last updated 3 days ago on 2024-12-19
Created 8 months ago on 2024-04-11

About

This rule attempts to identify rapid secret retrieval attempts from AWS SecretsManager. Adversaries may attempt to retrieve secrets from the Secrets Manager programmatically using the `GetSecretValue` or `BatchGetSecretValue` API actions.
Tags
Domain: CloudData Source: AWSData Source: Amazon Web ServicesData Source: AWS Secrets ManagerTactic: Credential Access
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Credential Access (TA0006)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Credentials from Password Stores (T1555)(opens in a new tab or window)

False Positive Examples
Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be using GetSecretString or BatchGetSecretValue APIs for the specified SecretId. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.
License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Threshold Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
filebeat-*logs-aws.cloudtrail*
Related Integrations

aws(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:secretsmanager.amazonaws.com and
    event.action: (GetSecretValue or BatchGetSecretValue) and event.outcome:success and
    not user_agent.name: ("Chrome" or "Firefox" or "Safari" or "Edge" or "Brave" or "Opera")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Rapid Secret Retrieval Attempts from AWS SecretsManager in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).