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AWS Route 53 Domain Transferred to Another Account

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

Detects when a request has been made to transfer a Route 53 domain to another AWS account.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1098 Account Manipulation
Privilege EscalationT1098 Account Manipulation

Event coverage

Rule body yaml

title: AWS Route 53 Domain Transferred to Another Account
id: b056de1a-6e6e-4e40-a67e-97c9808cf41b
status: test
description: Detects when a request has been made to transfer a Route 53 domain to another AWS account.
references:
    - https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules/blob/c76a39796972ecde44cb1da6df47f1b6562c9770/rules/integrations/aws/persistence_route_53_domain_transferred_to_another_account.toml
author: Elastic, Austin Songer @austinsonger
date: 2021-07-22
modified: 2022-10-09
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1098
logsource:
    product: aws
    service: cloudtrail
detection:
    selection:
        eventSource: route53.amazonaws.com
        eventName: TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - A domain may be transferred to another AWS account by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Domain transfers from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. 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: route53.amazonaws.com
    eventName: TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
eventNameeq
  • TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount
eventSourceeq
  • route53.amazonaws.com