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Cloudtrail alter encryption configuration

Platform Author Last Update
aws Nick Jones 2023-07-01

Alter cloudtrail encryption configuration such that log ingestion can no longer read logs

MITRE IDs

Required Permissions

  • cloudtrail:UpdateTrail

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example Value
trailname str Name of the cloudtrail to be targeted example-cloudtrail
kmskeyid str KMS key ID to use, supply an empty string to disable encryption

Attacker Action

aws cloudtrail update-trail --name example-cloudtrail --kms-key-id 

Detection Case

ELK query

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

eventName:UpdateTrail AND eventSource:*.cloudtrail.amazonaws.com  

Sigma Definition

---
title: Cloudtrail alter encryption configuration
id: 76e19d12-2ed2-4dfc-b9e9-f3b235ee471a
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2023-07-01
description: Alter cloudtrail encryption configuration such that log ingestion can no longer read logs
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.cloudtrail.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "UpdateTrail"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1562