AWS ECR Container Upload Outside Business Hours

 Original Source: [splunk source]
Name:AWS ECR Container Upload Outside Business Hours
id:d4c4d4eb-3994-41ca-a25e-a82d64e125bb
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) outside of standard business hours. It leverages AWS CloudTrail logs to identify `PutImage` events occurring between 8 PM and 8 AM or on weekends. This activity is significant because container uploads outside business hours can indicate unauthorized or suspicious activity, potentially pointing to a compromised account or insider threat. If confirmed malicious, this could allow an attacker to deploy unauthorized or malicious containers, leading to potential data breaches or service disruptions.
Data_source:
  • -AWS CloudTrail PutImage
search:`cloudtrail` eventSource=ecr.amazonaws.com eventName=PutImage date_hour>=20 OR date_hour<8 OR date_wday=saturday OR date_wday=sunday

| rename requestParameters.* as *

| rename repositoryName AS repository

| 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 repository

| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`

| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`

| `aws_ecr_container_upload_outside_business_hours_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:When your development is spreaded in different time zones, applying this rule can be difficult.
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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