Data from Information Repositories: Databases T1213.006

Tactic: Collection

Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information. These databases may be hosted on-premises or in the cloud (both in platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service environments).

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 3 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (8 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
EventType2eq 2GetSecretValue, StartExportTask
Provider_Name2eq 2rds.amazonaws.com, secretsmanager.amazonaws.com
data_stream.dataset2eq 2aws.cloudtrail
event.outcome2eq 2success
Category1eq 1SQLSecurityAuditEvents
IsVolumeAnomalyOnVal1eq 1true
WindowType1eq 1, in 1detection, training
action_id_s1contains 1bcm, rcm

Top indicator values (14 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
data_stream.dataseteq
aws.cloudtrail
2141
event.outcomeeq
success
2251
Categoryeq
SQLSecurityAuditEvents
112
EventTypeeq
GetSecretValue
13
EventTypeeq
StartExportTask
1
IsVolumeAnomalyOnValeq
true
12
Provider_Nameeq
rds.amazonaws.com
19
Provider_Nameeq
secretsmanager.amazonaws.com
12
WindowTypeeq
detection
110
WindowTypeeq
training
110
WindowTypein
detection
110
WindowTypein
training
110
action_id_scontains
bcm
110
action_id_scontains
rcm
110

Exclusions (8 distinct)

Field/operator/value combinations excluded by rules under this technique (top-level not() clauses), sorted by how many rules exclude each. These are the false-positive paths the community has learned to filter out. A new rule that ignores the high-count entries here will likely fire on the same noisy paths. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that exclude it.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
aws::sourceIPAddressin
apidestinations.events.amazonaws.com
1
aws::sourceIPAddressin
kafka.amazonaws.com
1
user_agent.namein
Brave
1
user_agent.namein
Chrome
1
user_agent.namein
Edge
1
user_agent.namein
Firefox
1
user_agent.namein
Opera
1
user_agent.namein
Safari
1

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Elastic 2 rules

Kusto 1 rule