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AWS CloudTrail Retention Lifecycle Too Short
Detects when an S3 bucket containing CloudTrail logs has been modified to delete data after a short period of time.
Detection Logic
from panther_aws_helpers import aws_cloudtrail_success, aws_rule_context
from panther_base_helpers import deep_get
# Use this to record the names of your S3 buckets that have cloudtrail logs
# If a bucket name isn't mentioned here, we still make a best guess as to whether or not it
# contains CloudTrail data, but the confidence rating will be lower, and so will the severity
CLOUDTRAIL_BUCKETS = ("example_cloudtrail_bucket_name",)
# This is the minimum length fo time CloudTrail logs should remain in an S3 bucket.
# We set this to 7 initially, since this is the recommended amount of time logs ingested by
# Panther should remain available. You can modify this if you wish.
CLOUDTRAIL_MINIMUM_STORAGE_PERIOD_DAYS = 7
def rule(event):
# Only alert for successful PutBucketLifecycle events
if not (aws_cloudtrail_success(event) and event.get("eventName") == "PutBucketLifecycle"):
return False
# Exit out if the bucket doesn't have cloudtrail logs
# We check this be either comparing the bucket name to a list of buckets the user knows has
# CT logs, or by heuristically looking at the name and guessing whether it likely has CT logs
bucket_name = event.deep_get("requestParameters", "bucketName")
if not bucket_name or (
not is_cloudtrail_bucket(bucket_name) and not guess_is_cloudtrail_bucket(bucket_name)
):
return False
# Don't alert if the Rule status is disabled
lifecycle = event.deep_get("requestParameters", "LifecycleConfiguration", "Rule")
if lifecycle.get("Status") != "Enabled":
return False
# Alert if the lifecycle period is short
duration = deep_get(lifecycle, "Expiration", "Days", default=0)
return duration < CLOUDTRAIL_MINIMUM_STORAGE_PERIOD_DAYS
def title(event):
bucket_name = event.deep_get("requestParameters", "bucketName", default="<UNKNOWN S3 BUCKET>")
lifecycle = event.deep_get("requestParameters", "LifecycleConfiguration", "Rule")
duration = deep_get(lifecycle, "Expiration", "Days", default=0)
rule_id = lifecycle.get("ID", "<UNKNOWN RULE ID>")
account = event.deep_get("userIdentity", "accountId", default="<UNKNOWN_AWS_ACCOUNT>")
return (
f"S3 Bucket {bucket_name} in account {account} "
f"has new rule {rule_id} set to delete CloudTrail logs after "
f"{duration} day{'s' if duration != 1 else ''}"
)
def severity(event):
# Return lower severity if we aren't positive this bucket has cloudtrail logs.
bucket_name = event.deep_get("requestParameters", "bucketName")
if not is_cloudtrail_bucket(bucket_name):
return "LOW"
return "DEFAULT"
def alert_context(event):
context = aws_rule_context(event)
# Add name of S3 bucket, Rule ID, and expiration duration to context
bucket_name = event.deep_get("requestParameters", "bucketName", default="<UNKNOWN S3 BUCKET>")
lifecycle = event.deep_get("requestParameters", "LifecycleConfiguration", "Rule")
duration = deep_get(lifecycle, "Expiration", "Days", default=0)
rule_id = lifecycle.get("ID", "<UNKNOWN RULE ID>")
context.update(
{
"bucketName": bucket_name,
"lifecycleRuleID": rule_id,
"lifecycleRuleDurationDays": duration,
}
)
return context
def is_cloudtrail_bucket(bucket_name: str) -> bool:
"""Returns True if the bucket is known to contain CloudTrail logs."""
return bucket_name in CLOUDTRAIL_BUCKETS
def guess_is_cloudtrail_bucket(bucket_name: str) -> bool:
"""Takes a best guess at whether a bucket contains CloudTrail logs or not."""
# Maybe one day, this check will get more complex
return "trail" in bucket_name.lower() Field Validations
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