Create EBS Snapshot¶

Platform	Author	Last Update
aws	Anela Tiro	2023-07-01

An adversary may attempt to create an EBS snapshot

MITRE IDs¶

T1530

Required Permissions¶

ec2:CreateSnapshot
ec2:DescribeVolumes
ec2:CreateTags

Required Parameters¶

None

Attacker Action¶

aws ec2 create-snapshot --volume-id  --description

Detection Case¶

ELK query¶

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

eventName:CreateSnapshot AND eventSource:*.ec2.amazonaws.com

Sigma Definition¶

---
title: Create EBS Snapshot
id: testing
status: experimental
author: Anela Tiro
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to create an EBS snapshot
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.ec2.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "CreateSnapshot"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1530