Resource Hijacking: Cloud Service Hijacking T1496.004

Tactic: Impact

Adversaries may leverage compromised software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact hosted service availability.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 5 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 (7 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
EventType4eq 3, in 1CreateProvisionedModelThroughput, CreateTopic, DeleteProvisionedModelThroughput, Publish, Subscribe
Provider_Name4eq 4sns.amazonaws.com, bedrock.amazonaws.com
data_stream.dataset4eq 4aws.cloudtrail
event.outcome4eq 4success
operation1in 1Converse, InvokeModel
output.outputBodyJson.usage.outputTokens1eq 10
output.outputBodyJson.usage.totalTokens1gt 11000

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
4141
event.outcomeeq
success
4251
Provider_Nameeq
sns.amazonaws.com
33
Provider_Nameeq
bedrock.amazonaws.com
115
EventTypeeq
CreateTopic
1
EventTypeeq
Publish
1
EventTypeeq
Subscribe
1
EventTypein
CreateProvisionedModelThroughput
1
EventTypein
DeleteProvisionedModelThroughput
1
EventTypein
UpdateProvisionedModelThroughput
1
operationin
Converse
1
operationin
InvokeModel
1
output.outputBodyJson.usage.outputTokenseq
0
1
output.outputBodyJson.usage.totalTokensgt
1000
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 4 rules

Panther 1 rule