Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure: Modify Cloud Compute Configurations T1578.005
Tactic: Defense Impairment
Adversaries may modify settings that directly affect the size, locations, and resources available to cloud compute infrastructure in order to evade defenses. These settings may include service quotas, subscription associations, tenant-wide policies, or other configurations that impact available compute. Such modifications may allow adversaries to abuse the victim’s compute resources to achieve their goals, potentially without affecting the execution of running instances and/or revealing their activities to the victim.
Authoring guide
Patterns shared across the 15 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 (11 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.
Top indicator values (49 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.
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.
Elastic 14 rules
- AWS EC2 EBS Snapshot Access Removed
- AWS EC2 Encryption Disabled
- AWS EC2 Network Access Control List Creation
- AWS EC2 Route Table Created
- AWS EC2 Route Table Modified or Deleted
- AWS EC2 Security Group Configuration Change
- AWS EC2 Serial Console Access Enabled
- AWS Lambda Function Policy Updated to Allow Public Invocation
- AWS Lambda Layer Added to Existing Function
- AWS RDS DB Instance or Cluster Deletion Protection Disabled
- Azure Key Vault Modified
- GCP Storage Bucket Configuration Modification
- GCP Virtual Private Cloud Route Creation
- GCP Virtual Private Cloud Route Deletion