AWS EC2 VM Export Failure

 Original Source: [Sigma source]
Title: AWS EC2 VM Export Failure
Status: test
Description:An attempt to export an AWS EC2 instance has been detected. A VM Export might indicate an attempt to extract information from an instance.
References:
  -https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport.html#export-instance
Author: Diogo Braz
Date: 2020-04-16
modified:2022-10-05
Tags:
  • -'attack.collection'
  • -'attack.t1005'
  • -'attack.exfiltration'
  • -'attack.t1537'
Logsource:
  • product: aws
  • service: cloudtrail
Detection:
  selection:
    eventName: 'CreateInstanceExportTask'
    eventSource: 'ec2.amazonaws.com'
  filter1:
    errorMessage|contains: '*'
  filter2:
    errorCode|contains: '*'
  filter3:
    responseElements|contains: 'Failure'
  condition:selection and not 1 of filter*
Falsepositives:
Level: low