Detectors
Every Cortex detection rule the toolbox knows about — analytics alerts, BIOCs and correlation rules — in one filterable set.
258 detectors match the current filters.
Download CSV| Type | Name | Severity | Module | Data source / event | ATT&CK |
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| Analytics BIOC | AWS IAM Role's Trusted Policy Modification Allows Cross-Account Access A cloud identity has updated an IAM role's trust policy to allow external AWS account access. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Lambda Cross-Account sensitive permissions configured A cloud identity has granted external AWS account sensitive permissions to a Lambda function. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics | AWS Lambda infrastructure enumeration activity Lambda infrastructure enumeration activity detected within a specific AWS region. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS network ACL rule creation An AWS network ACL rule was created with a specific rule number. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS network ACL rule deletion An AWS network ACL rule was deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Password Policy Discovery A cloud identity has viewed the AWS account password policy. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS principals discovery A cloud identity has enumerated principals. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS RDS cluster deletion A previously provisioned DB cluster (RDS) was deleted. When a DB cluster is being deleted, all automated backups for that DB cluster are deleted and can't be recovered. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS resource discovery A cloud identity has enumerated resources. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS root account activity The AWS root account has successfully performed an operation in the project. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS S3 bucket data retention policy change through S3 Lifecycle rule A retention policy was set on a S3 bucket used by a CloudTrail Trail, using a S3 Lifecycle Rule. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS S3 bucket was exposed to public access AWS S3 bucket was publicly shared. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | AWS S3 Buckets enumeration activity Enumeration of S3 buckets, suggesting potential cloud storage reconnaissance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Secrets Manager discovery An attempt was made to list secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Credential Access, Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Security Group remote access allowed from an unknown external IP address A cloud identity has modified the ingress rules to allow unfamiliar ip addresses SSH or RDP access. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | AWS Security Service Enumeration AWS security service enumeration activity, potentially indicating reconnaissance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS SecurityHub findings were modified AWS SecurityHub findings were modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS SES account sending settings modified AWS SES account sending settings were modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS SSM association created with inventory collection document An identity created an AWS Systems Manager State Manager association using the AWS-GatherSoftwareInventory document. This document collects software inventory from managed instances and can be used by attackers for host discovery and enumeration. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery, Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS SSM parameters discovery An attempt was made to list parameters stored in AWS SSM. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Credential Access, Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS SSM parameters retrieval An attempt was made to retrieve parameters stored in AWS SSM. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS SSM send command attempt An identity executed an AWS SSM Document. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Lateral Movement, Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Storage Gateway enumeration An AWS Storage Gateway was enumerated. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Storage Gateway file share enumeration AWS Storage Gateway file shares were enumerated. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS STS temporary credentials were generated AWS STS temporary credentials were generated for an AWS identity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Initial Access, Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS support case creation A cloud identity has created a new case in AWS support. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Systems Manager hosts enumeration A cloud identity enumerated hosts managed by AWS Systems Manager. Adversaries may use this API to discover SSM managed instances as a precursor to lateral movement or remote code execution. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS Transfer Family server created A cloud identity created server using AWS Transfer Family service. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS user creation A new AWS user was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | AWS web ACL deletion Web ACL defines a collection of rules to use to inspect and control web requests. A Web ACL has been deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | Bedrock model shared with a foreign account A bedrock model was shared with a foreign account through AWS resource access manager. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | Billing admin role was removed Sensitive Action - Billing admin role was removed. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | Bucket's block public access setting turned off S3 bucket block public access setting turned off. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | Bucket's object ownership controls were modified S3 bucket object ownership controls were modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud access key creation Cloud access key creation by a cloud identity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud activity from a high-risk IP address An identity executed a cloud API from a high-risk IP address. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Initial Access, Command and Control |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud AI agent was modified A cloud identity modified AI agent. MITRE ATLAS Technique: AML.T0015 - Evade ML Model. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud compute instance user data script modification The user data of a cloud compute instance was modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud compute serial console access An identity connected to a compute instance using serial console access. This may indicate an attacker attempting to move laterally between cloud instances. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud compute volume creation attempt An attempt was made to create an EBS volume. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion, Collection |
| Analytics | Cloud email infrastructure enumeration activity A cloud identity attempted to discover available email sending resources within the cloud environment. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the organization's email sending environment and discover cloud resources that may assist to send phishing emails or spam. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud email sending was enabled Cloud email sending was enabled for the cloud account. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Resource Development |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud email service activity A cloud Identity performed an email service operation. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud identity reached a throttling API rate A cloud identity has executed a high volume of API calls, causing a throttling error. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics | Cloud IMDS access followed by remote token usage A request was made to the cloud Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) followed by a remote usage of EC2 role token. | Medium | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, XDR Agent | Initial Access, Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud impersonation attempt by unusual identity type A suspicious identity type has attempted to impersonate another identity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Initial Access |
| Analytics | Cloud infrastructure discovery across multiple regions Discovery API calls were executed across multiple AWS regions. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Cloud infrastructure enumeration activity A cloud identity attempted to discover available resources within the cloud environment. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the organization's cloud environment and discover cloud resources that may assist to perform additional attacks within the environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud instance creation attempt An attempt was made to create a cloud compute instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud instance deletion attempt An attempt was made to delete a cloud compute instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud penetration testing tool activity A cloud API was successfully executed using a known cloud penetration testing tool. | High | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Microsoft Graph Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud snapshot created or modified A cloud identity has created or modified a cloud snapshot. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Exfiltration, Defense Evasion, Collection |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud snapshot of a database or storage instance was publicly shared A cloud identity has publicly shared a snapshot of a database or storage instance. | Medium | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud storage automatic backup disabled Automatic backup of a cloud storage resource was disabled. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud storage delete protection disabled Delete protection of a cloud storage resource was disabled. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics | Cloud user performed multiple actions that were denied An identity performed multiple actions that were denied, which may indicate it is being misused. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | Cloud Watch alarm deletion A Cloud Watch alarm was deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | CloudTrail logging deletion CloudTrail logging trail deletion. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | Command execution via AWS SSM A cloud identity performed multiple unusual activities leading to code execution using AWS Systems Manager service. | Medium | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Execution, Lateral Movement |
| Analytics BIOC | Compute activity in dormant cloud region A compute resource was created or updated in a cloud region that has been dormant for this project. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | Data encryption was disabled A cloud identity has disabled data encryption. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | Deletion of multiple cloud resources An identity deleted multiple cloud resources. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | Denied API call by a Kubernetes service account A Kubernetes service account API call was denied. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Disable AWS audit logs through Event Selectors An AWS Cloudtrail Event Selector was modified. An attacker might use this technique to disable audit logs. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | Disable encryption operations Encryption was disabled on the servers that host EC2 instances, both for data-at-rest and data-in-transit. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | EBS snapshots were created from an EC2 instance One or more EBS snapshots were created from an EC2 instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Collection |
| Analytics BIOC | EBS volume attachment attempt An attempt was made to attach an EBS volume to an EC2 instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | EBS volume detachment attempt An attempt was made to detach an AWS EBS volume from an EC2 instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | EC2 backdoor created with newly added external SSH or RDP access EC2 instance created with an administrator instance profile and a newly added external SSH or RDP access. | High | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | EC2 instance Amazon machine image was created Amazon machine image was created from elastic compute cloud instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | Foreign account was granted permissions to S3 bucket via resource-based policy Foreign account was granted access to S3 bucket. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics | IAM Enumeration sequence An identity has executed a sequence of events which may be related to an IAM recon enumeration. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM inline policy was added to group A cloud identity added an AWS IAM inline policy to an IAM group. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM inline policy was added to role A cloud identity added an AWS IAM inline policy to an IAM role. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM inline policy was added to user A cloud identity added an AWS IAM inline policy to an IAM user. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM instance profile associations were described AWS IAM instance profile associations were described. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM instance profile was associated with EC2 instance An AWS IAM instance profile was associated with EC2 instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Privilege Escalation, Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM instance profile was created An AWS IAM instance profile was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Privilege Escalation, Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM instance profile was replaced for EC2 instance An AWS IAM instance profile was replaced for EC2 instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Privilege Escalation, Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM policy default version was changed A cloud identity set the specified version of an AWS IAM policy as the policy's default. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM policy version was created A cloud identity created an AWS-managed IAM policy version. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM policy was attached to group A cloud identity attached an AWS IAM policy to an IAM group. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM policy was attached to role An AWS IAM policy was attached to this role. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Privilege Escalation, Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM role trust policy modification A cloud identity updated the trust policy of an AWS IAM role. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM role was created An IAM role was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM role-attached managed policies were listed AWS IAM managed policies that are attached to a role were listed. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | IAM User added to an IAM group An IAM user was added to an IAM group. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Privilege Escalation, Persistence |
| Analytics | Impossible travel by a cloud identity Cloud identity activity detected from distant geographic regions within an short time window. This suggests unauthorized use of credentials, possibly indicating a compromised account. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes admission controller activity A Kubernetes admission controller has been created or modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Persistence, Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes cluster events deletion Kubernetes cluster events deletion. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | Kubernetes enumeration activity An identity attempted to discover available resources within a cluster. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the Kubernetes environment and discover resources that may assist to perform additional attacks within the environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes network policy modification A change has been made to the network policies of a Kubernetes cluster. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes Pod Created with host Inter Process Communications (IPC) namespace An identity created a Kubernetes pod with the host Inter Process Communications (IPC) namespace. This may indicate an adversary attempting to access data used by other pods that use the host's IPC namespace. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Privilege Escalation, Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes Pod created with host process ID (PID) namespace An identity created a Kubernetes pod with the host process ID (PID) namespace. This may indicate an adversary attempting to access processes running on the host, which could allow escalating privileges to root. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Privilege Escalation, Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes Pod Created With Sensitive Volume An identity created a Kubernetes Pod with a sensitive volume, allowing the Pod to have read or write permissions on the host's filesystem This could suggest an effort by an adversary to access sensitive files on the host and employ techniques for escalating privileges. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Privilege Escalation, Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes pod creation from unknown container image registry A Kubernetes pod was created with a container image from an unknown registry. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes pod creation with host network An identity created a Kubernetes pod attached to the host network. This may indicate an adversary attempting to access services bound to localhost, sniff traffic on any interface on the host, and potentially bypass the network policy. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Privilege Escalation, Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes Privileged Pod Creation An identity created a Kubernetes pod with a privileged container. This may indicate an adversary attempting to access that host's filesystem or gain root access to the host. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Privilege Escalation, Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes secrets enumeration for the first time An identity listed Kubernetes secrets for the first time. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | Kubernetes service account activity outside the cluster A service account user successfully invoked API calls outside the Kubernetes cluster. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Initial Access |