Cloudtrail Disable Trail (aws)

Platform	Author	Last Update
aws	Nick Jones	2024-12-02

An attacker may attempt to disable a cloudtrail instance in order to avoid detection

MITRE IDs

T1562

Required Permissions

cloudtrail:StopLogging

Required Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
trailname	str	Name of the cloudtrail to be targeted	example-cloudtrail

Attacker Action

aws cloudtrail stop-logging --name example-cloudtrail

Detection Case

ELK query

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

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

Sigma Definition

---
title: Cloudtrail disable trail
id: bf856088-70f3-498b-af19-f061c0bd7740
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2024-12-02
description: An attacker may attempt to disable a cloudtrail instance in order to avoid detection
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.cloudtrail.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "StopLogging"
  condition: selection_source and events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1562


falsepositives:
  - Developers making legitimate changes to the environment. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment.