Delete Secret In Secrets Manager (aws)

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

An adversary may attempt to delete secrets stored in secrets manager, in order to negatively impact the function of an environment

MITRE IDs

T1485

Required Permissions

secretsmanager:DeleteSecret

Required Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
secretid	str	ID of secret to access, either ARN or friendly name	leonidas_created_secret

Attacker Action

aws secretsmanager list-secrets

Detection Case

ELK query

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

eventName:DeleteSecret AND eventSource:*.secretsmanager.amazonaws.com

Sigma Definition

---
title: Delete Secret in Secrets Manager
id: c8f201c3-705f-4897-8cab-c765eeb4b1a3
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2024-12-02
description: An adversary may attempt to delete secrets stored in secrets manager, in order to negatively impact the function of an environment
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.secretsmanager.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "DeleteSecret"
  condition: selection_source and events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1485


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.