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Suspend GuardDuty

Platform Author Last Update
aws Mehmet Mert Surmeli 2023-07-01

An adversary may attempt to suspend GuardDuty to avoid detection. This is achived but setting the GuardDuty detector to "Not Enabled" state

MITRE IDs

Required Permissions

  • guardduty:UpdateDetector

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example Value
detectorid str ID of the GuardDuty detector to be suspended. 12345

Attacker Action

aws guardduty update-detector --detector-id 12345 --no-enable

Detection Case

ELK query

When logs are ingested into ELK, the following Lucene query can be used to identify relevant events.

eventName:UpdateDetector AND eventSource:*.guardduty.amazonaws.com  

Sigma Definition

---
title: Suspend GuardDuty
id: 503a35f8-7e4a-4761-b04a-d2f236adf29b
status: experimental
author: Mehmet Mert Surmeli
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to suspend GuardDuty to avoid detection. This is achived but setting the GuardDuty detector to "Not Enabled" state
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "UpdateDetector"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1562