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Add detection for repeated CloudWatch Logs read operations - #4288

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Summary

Adds an AWS CloudTrail analytic that detects more than 500 Amazon CloudWatch Logs read operations performed by the same principal and AWS account within a rolling five-minute window.

Monitored operations

  • DescribeLogGroups
  • DescribeLogStreams
  • DownloadLogEvents
  • FilterLogEvents
  • GetLogEvents
  • GetQueryResults

Detection details

  • Groups activity by AWS principal ID and account
  • Uses a rolling five-minute window
  • Requires more than 500 matching operations
  • Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1530
  • Uses AWS CloudTrail management read events

Testing

  • Validated with 650 unique GetLogEvents events generated in 37 seconds
  • Passed contentctl validation
  • Passed the focused contentctl unit test

Attack data

splunk/attack_data#1225

@nasbench nasbench added this to the v6.8.0 milestone Sep 24, 2026

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