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AWS WAF Rule or Rule Group Deletion

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AWS WAF Rule or Rule Group Deletion

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Identifies the deletion of a specified AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule or rule group.

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
  • Network Security

Version: 10 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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

Investigation guide

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Rule query
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event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:(waf.amazonaws.com or
waf-regional.amazonaws.com or wafv2.amazonaws.com) and
event.action:(DeleteRule or DeleteRuleGroup) and event.outcome:success











Threat mapping
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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM














Rule version history
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Version 10 (8.4.0 release)








    

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Version 8 (8.2.0 release)








    

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    event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.action:(DeleteRule or
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Version 7 (8.1.0 release)








    

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Version 6 (7.13.0 release)








    

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Version 5 (7.12.0 release)








    

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Version 4 (7.11.2 release)








    

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Version 3 (7.11.0 release)








    

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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)








    

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    Updated query, changed from:
    

    

    

    event.module:aws and event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and
event.action:(DeleteRule or DeleteRuleGroup) and event.outcome:success
    

    

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