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Disable GuardDuty

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

An adversary may attempt to disable GuardDuty to avoid detection. This is achived by deleting the GuardDuty Detectors.

MITRE IDs

Required Permissions

  • guardduty:DeleteDetector

Required Parameters

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

Attacker Action

aws guardduty delete-detector --detector-id 12345

Detection Case

ELK query

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

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

Sigma Definition

---
title: Disable GuardDuty
id: 9ca58c16-3ae1-44a4-981b-0e8bcd9e913b
status: experimental
author: Mehmet Mert Surmeli
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to disable GuardDuty to avoid detection. This is achived by deleting the GuardDuty Detectors.
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "DeleteDetector"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1562