LoFP / traffic mirroring may be done by a system or network administrator. verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. traffic mirroring from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. if known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Techniques

• T1020
• T1074

Sample rules

AWS EC2 Full Network Packet Capture Detected

• source: elastic
• technicques:
  • T1020
  • T1074

Description

Identifies potential Traffic Mirroring in an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. Traffic Mirroring is an Amazon VPC feature that you can use to copy network traffic from an Elastic network interface. This feature can potentially be abused to exfiltrate sensitive data from unencrypted internal traffic.

Detection logic

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:ec2.amazonaws.com and
event.action:(CreateTrafficMirrorFilter or CreateTrafficMirrorFilterRule or CreateTrafficMirrorSession or CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) and
event.outcome:success