AWS EC2 VM Export Failure

Identifies an attempt to export an AWS EC2 instance. A virtual machine (VM) export may indicate an attempt to extract or exfiltrate information.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 10m

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Version: 2

Rule authors:

Rule license: Elastic License v2

## Config

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

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:ec2.amazonaws.com and event.action:CreateInstanceExportTask and event.outcome:failure

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Exfiltration
- ID: TA0010
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0010/
Technique:
- Name: Transfer Data to Cloud Account
- ID: T1537
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1537/
Tactic:
- Name: Collection
- ID: TA0009
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/
Technique:
- Name: Data from Local System
- ID: T1005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1005/