Azure Event Hub Deletionedit

Identifies an Event Hub deletion in Azure. An Event Hub is an event processing service that ingests and processes large volumes of events and data. An adversary may delete an Event Hub in an attempt to evade detection.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-azure*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-25m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • Azure
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Log Auditing

Version: 101 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positivesedit

Event Hub deletions may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the username, hostname, and/or resource name should be making changes in your environment. Event Hub deletions by unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guideedit


Rule queryedit

event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and azure.activitylogs.operation_name
:"MICROSOFT.EVENTHUB/NAMESPACES/EVENTHUBS/DELETE" and
event.outcome:(Success or success)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 101 (8.6.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 8 (8.4.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 6 (8.1.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 5 (7.13.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 4 (7.12.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and azure.activitylogs.operation_name
    :MICROSOFT.EVENTHUB/NAMESPACES/EVENTHUBS/DELETE and
    event.outcome:(Success or success)
Version 3 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 2 (7.11.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and azure.activitylogs.operation_name
    :MICROSOFT.EVENTHUB/NAMESPACES/EVENTHUBS/DELETE and
    event.outcome:Success