Credentials from Password Stores: Cloud Secrets Management Stores T1555.006

Tactic: Credential Access

Adversaries may acquire credentials from cloud-native secret management solutions such as AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, and Terraform Vault.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 8 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 (23 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
EventType7in 5, eq 4GetSecretValue, CertificateContactsGet, CertificateGet, CertificateGetDeleted, AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
data_stream.dataset7eq 7, in 1aws.cloudtrail, azure.platformlogs, azure.activitylogs, gcp.audit
event.outcome5eq 5success
Provider_Name3eq 3secretsmanager.amazonaws.com, ssm.amazonaws.com
Esql.assume_count1ge 11
Esql.azure_platformlogs_identity_claim_upn_count_distinct1eq 11
Esql.cloud_vendor1ne 1unknown
Esql.event_action_count_distinct1ge 12
Esql.event_count1ge 110
Esql.post_exploit_count1ge 13
Esql.vendor_count_distinct1ge 12
access_key1is_not_null 1
aws.cloudtrail.flattened.request_parameters.withDecryption1eq 1true
aws::userIdentity.type1eq 1AssumedRole
azure.activitylogs.identity.authorization.evidence.principal_type1eq 1User

Top indicator values (81 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
event.outcomeeq
success
5251
data_stream.dataseteq
aws.cloudtrail
4141
data_stream.dataseteq
azure.platformlogs
34
EventTypeeq
GetSecretValue
33
EventTypein
KeyGet
33
EventTypein
SecretGet
33
EventTypein
CertificateContactsGet
22
EventTypein
CertificateGet
22
EventTypein
CertificateGetDeleted
22
EventTypein
CertificateIssuerGet
22
EventTypein
CertificateIssuersList
22
EventTypein
CertificateList
22
EventTypein
CertificateListDeleted
22
EventTypein
CertificateListVersions
22
EventTypein
CertificatePolicyGet
22
EventTypein
GetParameters
22
EventTypein
KeyGetDeleted
22
EventTypein
KeyList
22
EventTypein
KeyListDeleted
22
EventTypein
KeyListVersions
22
EventTypein
SecretGetDeleted
22
EventTypein
SecretList
22
EventTypein
SecretListDeleted
22
EventTypein
SecretListVersions
22
EventTypein
VaultGet
22
Provider_Nameeq
secretsmanager.amazonaws.com
22
Esql.assume_countge
1
1
Esql.azure_platformlogs_identity_claim_upn_count_distincteq
1
1
Esql.cloud_vendorne
unknown
1
Esql.event_action_count_distinctge
2
1

Exclusions (10 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
cloudformation.amazonaws.com
1
aws::sourceIPAddressin
kafka.amazonaws.com
1
aws::sourceIPAddressin
servicecatalog.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.

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Elastic 8 rules