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Delete Elasticache Instance

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

An adversary may attempt to delete Elasticache Instance

MITRE IDs

Required Permissions

  • elasticache:DeleteCacheCluster

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example Value
clusterid str Cluster ID which will be deleted cluster_ID

Attacker Action

aws elasticache delete-cache-cluster --cache-cluster-id cluster_ID

Detection Case

ELK query

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

eventName:DeleteCacheCluster  

Sigma Definition

---
title: Delete Elasticache Instance
id: testing
status: experimental
author: Anela Tiro
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to delete Elasticache Instance
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: ""
  events:
    - eventName: "DeleteCacheCluster"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1529