AWS EC2 Full Network Packet Capture Detected

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Identifies potential Traffic Mirroring in an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. Traffic Mirroring is an Amazon VPC feature that you can use to copy network traffic from an Elastic network interface. This feature can potentially be abused to exfiltrate sensitive data from unencrypted internal traffic.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "DETECTION_ACTION_AWS_EC2_FULL_NET_PACKET_CAPTURE_DETECTED" select Action1.CALLER,Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.IPADDRESS,Action1.LOG_EVENT_NAME,Action1.SOURCE,Action1.SOURCE_REGION,Action1.REQUESTPARAMETERS

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

AWS