AWSCloudTrail - Suspicious command sent to EC2

An attacker with the necessary AWS permissions could be executing code remotely on an EC2 instance via SSM and saving the output to their own S3 bucket. Verify this action with the user identity and confirm it was…

Description

An attacker with the necessary AWS permissions could be executing code remotely on an EC2 instance via SSM and saving the output to their own S3 bucket. Verify this action with the user identity and confirm it was authorized.

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Platform: IaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: aws
Log source service: awscloudtrail

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AWSCloudTrail - Suspicious command sent to EC2

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