Classification:

attack

Tactic:

TA0040-impact

Technique:

T1485-data-destruction

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Goal

Detect when an attacker is destroying an EC2 subnet.

Strategy

This rule lets you monitor this CloudTrail API call to detect if an attacker is deleting an EC2 subnet.

• DeleteSubnet

Triage and response

1. Determine if {{@userIdentity.arn}} should be deleting EC2 subnets.
2. Contact the user to see if they intended to make this API call.
3. If the user did not make the API call:
   • Rotate the credentials.
   • Investigate if the same credentials made other unauthorized API calls.

Changelog

1 April 2022 - Updated rule and signal message.