Suspicious AWS GuardDuty Detector Tampering

PremiumReviewedSigma · High · v1
Product
aws
Service
cloudtrail
Author
HuntRule
Published
2026-10-25
Updated
2026-10-25

ATT&CK techniques

  1. Recon

  2. Resource Dev

  3. Initial Access

  4. Execution

  5. Persistence

  6. Priv Esc

  7. Defense Evasion

  8. Cred Access

  9. Discovery

  10. Lateral Movement

  11. Collection

  12. C2

  13. Exfiltration

  14. Impact

What it detects

This rule detects tampering with AWS GuardDuty through DeleteDetector, UpdateDetector or CreateIPSet operations. Attackers disable the detector or add trusted IP allowlists so their activity is no longer flagged, undermining threat detection in the account.

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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.