SIEM × Platform · Splunk · AWS CloudTrail

Splunk detections for AWS CloudTrail

Last reviewed:

Sigma rule outputs from CloudSigma rendered into Splunk queries against the AWS CloudTrail schema. Every rule is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and validated against its dialect.

01 Coverage at a glance
26
Production rules
26
ATT&CK techniques
9
ATT&CK tactics
Splunk
Output dialect
02 Rule index
Technique Rule Severity Log source
T1040 Network Sniffing on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1078 Valid Accounts on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1078.004 Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1087 Account Discovery on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1087.004 Account Discovery: Cloud Account on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1098 Account Manipulation on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1098.001 Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Credentials on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1110 Brute Force on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1213 Data from Information Repositories on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1485 Data Destruction on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1491 Defacement on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1496 Resource Hijacking on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1498 Network Denial of Service on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1525 Implant Internal Image on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1526 Cloud Service Discovery on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1528 Steal Application Access Token on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1552.001 Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1556 Modify Authentication Process on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1580 Cloud Infrastructure Discovery on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1685 Disable or Modify Tools on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
T1686.001 Disable or Modify System Firewall: Cloud Firewall on AWS CloudTrail medium AWS CloudTrail
03 Example rule

We are not embedding an example rule on this page yet. The rule corpus for this source is still being reviewed against a13e's public embed bar. CloudSigma can generate Sigma rules from CVE advisories, vulnerability disclosures and security research; generate a Splunk-targeted rule there, review it against your local telemetry, then deploy it in your SIEM.

Sources
  • Sigma project, https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma
  • Splunk documentation, https://docs.splunk.com/
Last verified: 2026-06-06