AWS RDS Snapshot Export

Warning

This rule has been deprecated as of 2021/08/02.

Identifies the export of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database snapshot.

Rule type: query
Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-aws*

Rule Severity: low
Risk Score: 21
Runs every: 10m
Searches indices from: now-60m
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_StartExportTask.html

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Asset Visibility

Version: 100
Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

Config

The AWS Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule Query

		event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:StartExportTask and event.outcome:success
		
	

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic:
- Name: Exfiltration
- Id: TA0010
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0010/