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AWS Glue Development Endpoint Activity

Status
test
Severity
low
Log source
product aws, service cloudtrail
Author
Austin Songer @austinsonger
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects possible suspicious glue development endpoint activity.

Known false positives

  • Glue Development Endpoint Activity may be performed by a system administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment.
  • If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationNo specific technique

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

title: AWS Glue Development Endpoint Activity
id: 4990c2e3-f4b8-45e3-bc3c-30b14ff0ed26
status: test
description: Detects possible suspicious glue development endpoint activity.
references:
    - https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/aws-privilege-escalation-methods-mitigation/
    - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/webapi/API_CreateDevEndpoint.html
author: Austin Songer @austinsonger
date: 2021-10-03
modified: 2022-12-18
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
logsource:
    product: aws
    service: cloudtrail
detection:
    selection:
        eventSource: 'glue.amazonaws.com'
        eventName:
            - 'CreateDevEndpoint'
            - 'DeleteDevEndpoint'
            - 'UpdateDevEndpoint'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Glue Development Endpoint Activity may be performed by a system administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment.
    - If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.
level: low

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    eventSource: 'glue.amazonaws.com'
    eventName:
        - 'CreateDevEndpoint'
        - 'DeleteDevEndpoint'
        - 'UpdateDevEndpoint'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
eventNameeq
  • CreateDevEndpoint
  • DeleteDevEndpoint
  • UpdateDevEndpoint
field:"aws::eventName" kind:eq
eventSourceeq
  • glue.amazonaws.com
field:"aws::eventSource" kind:eq value:"glue.amazonaws.com"