AWS RDS Cluster Deletion

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Identifies the deletion of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database cluster or global database cluster.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-aws*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

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
  • Asset Visibility

Version: 3 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positives

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Clusters may be deleted by a system administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Cluster deletions from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If a known behavior is causing false positives, it can be excluded from the rule.

Investigation guide

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

Rule query

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event.action:(DeleteDBCluster or DeleteGlobalCluster) and
event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and
event.outcome:success

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 3 (7.11.2 release)
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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
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