GCP Storage Bucket Deletion

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Identifies when a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) storage bucket is deleted. An adversary may delete a storage bucket in order to disrupt their target’s business operations.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-gcp*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • GCP
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Monitoring

Version: 8 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Storage buckets may be deleted by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user email, resource name, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Bucket 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:gcp.audit and event.action:"storage.buckets.delete"

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 8 (8.4.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and
    event.action:"storage.buckets.delete"
Version 6 (8.1.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 5 (7.13.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and
    event.action:storage.buckets.delete
Version 4 (7.12.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 3 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 2 (7.11.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:googlecloud.audit and
    event.action:storage.buckets.delete