AWSCloudTrail - Suspicious AWS CLI Command Execution
This detection focuses on identifying potentially suspicious activities involving the execution of AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) commands, particularly focusing on reconnaissance operations.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- PRE
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 6 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- aws
- Log source service
- awscloudtrail
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
- T1589Gather Victim Identity Information
- T1590Gather Victim Network Information15 detections cover this technique
- T1591Gather Victim Org Information5 detections cover this technique
- T1592Gather Victim Host Information
- T1595Active Scanning88 detections cover this technique
- T1596Search Open Technical Databases3 detections cover this technique
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 8c2dc344-9352-4ca1-8863-b1b7a5e09e59
- Tagged by the source as
- Reconnaissance
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1