Suspicious Google Full Network Traffic Packet Capture (via gcp.audit)

title: Suspicious Google Full Network Traffic Packet Capture (via gcp.audit)
id: 4a39f410-0e4e-5f9b-96f3-4d8ad53ff673
status: stable
description: This rule detects potential full network packet capture in gcp. This feature can potentially be misused to read sensitive data from unencrypted internal traffic.
references:
    - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1074/
    - https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/audit-logging
    - https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/compute/v1/java/latest/com/google/api/services/compute/Compute.PacketMirrorings.html
author: Huntrule Team
date: 2026-05-31
tags:
    - attack.collection
    - attack.t1074
logsource:
    product: gcp
    service: gcp.audit
detection:
    selection:
        gcp.audit.method_name:
            - v*.Compute.PacketMirrorings.Get
            - v*.Compute.PacketMirrorings.Delete
            - v*.Compute.PacketMirrorings.Insert
            - v*.Compute.PacketMirrorings.Patch
            - v*.Compute.PacketMirrorings.List
            - v*.Compute.PacketMirrorings.aggregatedList
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium