AWS ECR Container Upload Unknown User

 Original Source: [splunk source]
Name:AWS ECR Container Upload Unknown User
id:300688e4-365c-4486-a065-7c884462b31d
version:12
date:None
author:Patrick Bareiss, Splunk
status:production
type:Anomaly
Description:The following analytic detects the upload of a new container image to AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) by an unknown user. It leverages AWS CloudTrail logs to identify `PutImage` events from the ECR service, filtering out known users. This activity is significant because container uploads should typically be performed by a limited set of authorized users. If confirmed malicious, this could indicate unauthorized access, potentially leading to the deployment of malicious containers, data exfiltration, or further compromise of the AWS environment.
Data_source:
  • -AWS CloudTrail PutImage
search:`cloudtrail` eventSource=ecr.amazonaws.com eventName=PutImage NOT `aws_ecr_users`

| rename requestParameters.* as *

| rename repositoryName AS image

| rename user_name as user

| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime
BY signature user user_agent
src vendor_account vendor_region
vendor_product image

| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`

| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`

| `aws_ecr_container_upload_unknown_user_filter`


how_to_implement:You must install splunk AWS add on and Splunk App for AWS. This search works with AWS CloudTrail logs.
known_false_positives:No false positives have been identified at this time.
References:
  -https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1204/003/
drilldown_searches:
 name:'View the detection results for - "$user$"'
 search:'%original_detection_search% | search user = "$user$"'
 earliest_offset:'$info_min_time$'
 latest_offset:'$info_max_time$'
 name:'View risk events for the last 7 days for - "$user$"'
 search:'| from datamodel Risk.All_Risk | search normalized_risk_object IN ("$user$") | stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(search_name) as "Search Name" values(risk_message) as "Risk Message" values(analyticstories) as "Analytic Stories" values(annotations._all) as "Annotations" values(annotations.mitre_attack.mitre_tactic) as "ATT&CK Tactics" by normalized_risk_object | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`'
 earliest_offset:'7d'
 latest_offset:'0'
analytic_story:['Dev Sec Ops']

asset_type:AWS Account

mitre_attack_id:['T1204.003']

product:['Splunk Enterprise', 'Splunk Enterprise Security', 'Splunk Cloud']

category:cloud

security_domain:network

tags:

tests:
 name:'True Positive Test'
 attack_data:
  data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1204.003/aws_ecr_container_upload/aws_ecr_container_upload.json
  sourcetype: aws:cloudtrail
  source: aws_cloudtrail
 test_type:'unit'
manual_test:None

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