Transfer Data to Cloud Account T1537

Tactic: Exfiltration

Adversaries may exfiltrate data by transferring the data, including through sharing/syncing and creating backups of cloud environments, to another cloud account they control on the same service.

Events covered

1 catalog event is tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

Authoring guide

These 56 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.

Fields filtered most (64 distinct)

These fields appear most often in rule filters.

FieldRulesHowSample values
aws::eventName20eq 17, in 3ModifySnapshotAttribute, CopyDBClusterSnapshot, CopyDBSnapshot, CreateDBInstance, CreateDBSnapshot
EventType15eq 10, in 4, wildcard 1PutBucketPolicy, COLLABORATION_INVITE, CREATE_DATA_TRANSFER_REQUEST, CUSTOMER_TAKEOUT_CREATED, CreateInstanceExportTask
data_stream.dataset13eq 13aws.cloudtrail, o365.audit, azure.activitylogs, gcp.audit, google_workspace.admin
event.outcome13eq 13success, Success
Provider_Name9eq 9ec2.amazonaws.com, Exchange, s3.amazonaws.com, ecr.amazonaws.com, rds.amazonaws.com
aws::eventSource9eq 9rds.amazonaws.com, ec2.amazonaws.com, s3.amazonaws.com, SecurityComplianceCenter
aws::errorCode8is_null 7, match 1, *
aws::requestParameters8contains 6, is_not_null 1, regex_match 1Effect=Allow, , *add=*, .*\"Effect\": *\"Allow\".*, .*\"Principal\": *\"\*\".*
aws::errorMessage6is_null 5, match 1, *
EventID5eq 55145, ModifyDBClusterSnapshotAttribute, ModifyDBSnapshotAttribute, ModifyImageAttribute, ModifySnapshotAttribute
sourcetype5eq 5aws:cloudtrail, aws:asl
security_result.action3eq 3ALLOW
action2eq 2migration.create, org.transfer, org.transfer_outgoing, private_repository_forking.clear, private_repository_forking.enable
event.category2eq 2web
requestParameters.attributeName2eq 2Policy, restore

Top indicator values (195 distinct)

These values appear most often in rule predicates.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
aws::errorCodeis_null
750
event.outcomeeq
Success
7306
event.outcomeeq
success
682
aws::errorMessageis_null
530
data_stream.dataseteq
aws.cloudtrail
540
data_stream.dataseteq
aws.cloudtrail
3143
data_stream.dataseteq
o365.audit
238
aws::eventSourceeq
rds.amazonaws.com
418
aws::eventSourceeq
ec2.amazonaws.com
213
aws::eventSourceeq
s3.amazonaws.com
27
sourcetypeeq
aws:cloudtrail
459
Provider_Nameeq
ec2.amazonaws.com
318
Provider_Nameeq
Exchange
216
Provider_Nameeq
s3.amazonaws.com
28
aws::eventNameeq
ModifySnapshotAttribute
33
security_result.actioneq
ALLOW
3102
EventTypeeq
PutBucketPolicy
22
aws::requestParameterscontains
*add=*
22
aws::requestParameterscontains
Effect=Allow
22
event.categoryeq
web
220
AccessMask_eq
2
12
AccessMask_eq
4
12
All_Risk.annotations.mitre_attack.mitre_tacticeq
collection
1
All_Risk.annotations.mitre_attack.mitre_tacticeq
exfiltration
1
BYTES_TRANSFERREDgt
0
1
CommandLinecontains
gsutil cp
1
CommandLinecontains
put
1
CommandLinecontains
rclone copy
1
CommandLinecontains
rclone sync
1
CommandLinecontains
s3 cp
1

Exclusions (23 distinct)

These values appear most often in top-level exclusions.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
aws::errorCodeis_not_null
4
aws::errorMessageis_not_null
4
aws::userAgentcontains
*Pulumi*
2
aws::userAgentcontains
*Terraform*
2
aws::userAgentcontains
*Ansible*
1
ImageOwnerAliasin
amazon
1
ImageOwnerAliasin
microsoft
1
Publicis_null
1
aws::errorCodematch
*
1
aws::errorMessagematch
*
1
aws::eventNamene
CopyObject
1
aws::eventNamene
ModifyImageAttribute
1
aws::requestParameterscontains
arn:aws:cloudfront::
1
aws::requestParameterscontains
arn:aws:iam::cloudfront:user
1
aws::requestParameterscontains
aws.cloudtrail.recipient_account_id
1

Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Sigma 7 rules

Elastic 14 rules

Splunk 7 rules

Kusto 8 rules

YARA-L 4 rules

Panther 16 rules