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Active Rule
Potential Malicious Usage of CloudTrail System Manager
Target Profile
Splunk
Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries
Format Mode
Default
Plain SPL queries
Conversion Output
Potential Malicious Usage of CloudTrail System Manager
Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2
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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Potential Malicious Usage of CloudTrail System Manager
id: 38e7f511-3f74-41d4-836e-f57dfa18eead
status: test
description: |
Detect when System Manager successfully executes commands against an instance.
references:
- https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules/blob/v8.6.0/rules/integrations/aws/initial_access_via_system_manager.toml
author: jamesc-grafana
date: 2024-07-11
modified: 2025-12-08
tags:
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.initial-access
- attack.t1566
- attack.t1566.002
logsource:
product: aws
service: cloudtrail
detection:
selection_event:
eventName: 'SendCommand'
eventSource: 'ssm.amazonaws.com'
selection_status_success:
errorCode: 'Success'
selection_status_null:
errorCode: null
condition: selection_event and 1 of selection_status_*
falsepositives:
- There are legitimate uses of SSM to send commands to EC2 instances
- Legitimate users may have to use SSM to perform actions against machines in the Cloud to update or maintain them
level: high
CLI command
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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/cloud/aws/cloudtrail/aws_cloudtrail_ssm_malicious_usage.yml