AWS Access Secret in Secrets Manageredit

An adversary may attempt to access the secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to steal certificates, credentials, or other sensitive material.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-aws*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 10 minutes

Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • AWS
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Data Protection

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Nick Jones, Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positivesedit

Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be using GetSecretString API for the specified SecretId. If a known behavior is causing false positives, it can be excluded from the rule.

Investigation guideedit

The AWS Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule queryedit

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and
event.provider:secretsmanager.amazonaws.com and
event.action:GetSecretValue

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
  • Formatting only