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Potential Amazon SSM Agent Hijacking
Detects potential Amazon SSM agent hijack attempts as outlined in the Mitiga research report.
Known false positives
- Legitimate activity of system administrators
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Command & Control |
Telemetry coverage
| Provider | Record / event type |
|---|---|
| Sysmon | Event ID 1: Process creation |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4688: A new process has been created. |
Rule body
title: Potential Amazon SSM Agent Hijacking
id: d20ee2f4-822c-4827-9e15-41500b1fff10
status: test
description: Detects potential Amazon SSM agent hijack attempts as outlined in the Mitiga research report.
references:
- https://www.mitiga.io/blog/mitiga-security-advisory-abusing-the-ssm-agent-as-a-remote-access-trojan
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazons-aws-ssm-agent-can-be-used-as-post-exploitation-rat-malware/
- https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/08/02/aws-instances-attackers-access/
author: Muhammad Faisal
date: 2023-08-02
tags:
- attack.command-and-control
- attack.persistence
- attack.t1219.002
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection:
Image|endswith: '\amazon-ssm-agent.exe'
CommandLine|contains|all:
- '-register '
- '-code '
- '-id '
- '-region '
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitimate activity of system administrators
level: medium
Stages and Predicates
Stage 0: condition
selectionStage 1: selection
selection:
Image|endswith: '\amazon-ssm-agent.exe'
CommandLine|contains|all:
- '-register '
- '-code '
- '-id '
- '-region '
Indicators
These rows show field, operator, and value matches.
| Field | Kind | Values | Search |
|---|---|---|---|
CommandLine | match |
| field:"CommandLine" kind:match |
Image | ends_with |
| field:"Image" kind:ends_with value:"\amazon-ssm-agent.exe" |