Detectors
Every Cortex detection rule the toolbox knows about — analytics alerts, BIOCs and correlation rules — in one filterable set.
328 detectors match the current filters.
Download CSV| Type | Name | Severity | Module | Data source / event | ATT&CK |
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| Analytics BIOC | A Cloud DB instance was exported to an unknown destination A Cloud DB instance was exported to a foreign storage destination. The destination storage has not been seen in the organization in the last 30 days. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Gcp Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud identity created or modified a security group A cloud identity created or modified a security group. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud identity executed an API call from an unusual country A cloud identity that normally connects from a limited set of countries connected from a new country for the first time. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud identity had escalated its permissions A cloud identity had updated its permissions. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud identity invoked IAM related persistence operations A cloud identity invoked IAM related persistence operations. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud identity started a Cloud Shell session A cloud identity started a Cloud Shell session. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud instance was stopped A cloud compute instance was stopped. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud snapshot of AWS database or storage was modified or shared A cloud identity has shared a snapshot of an AWS database or storage instance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | A cloud storage configuration was modified A cloud storage configuration was modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | A compute-attached identity executed API calls outside the instance's region A compute-attached identity performed actions outside the compute instance region. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Initial Access, Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | A container registry was created or deleted A container registry was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | A GCP Cloud SQL DB instance was exported from a production account A GCP Cloud SQL DB instance was exported to a storage bucket. The DB instance was exported from a production account. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Gcp Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes cluster role binding was created or deleted A Kubernetes cluster role binding was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes cluster role was created A Kubernetes cluster role was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes cluster was created or deleted A Kubernetes cluster was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes ConfigMap was created or deleted A Kubernetes ConfigMap was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes Cronjob was created A Kubernetes CronJob was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes DaemonSet was created A Kubernetes DaemonSet was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes deployment was created A Kubernetes deployment was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes ephemeral container was created A Kubernetes ephemeral container was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes namespace was created or deleted A Kubernetes namespace was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes node service account activity from external IP A Kubernetes node service account was seen operating from an external IP. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes Pod was created with a sidecar container A Kubernetes Pod was created with a sidecar container. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes Pod was deleted A Kubernetes Pod was deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes ReplicaSet was created A Kubernetes ReplicaSet was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes role binding was created or deleted A Kubernetes role binding was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes secret was created or deleted A Kubernetes secret was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes service account executed an unusual API call A Kubernetes service account executed an unusual API call. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes service account has enumerated its permissions A Kubernetes service account has enumerated its permissions using the self subject review API. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes service account was created or deleted A Kubernetes service account was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes service was created or deleted A Kubernetes service was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | A Kubernetes StatefulSet was created A Kubernetes StatefulSet was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | A new Azure email domain verification was requested A new Azure email domain verification was requested. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Resource Development |
| Analytics BIOC | A New Server was Added to an Azure Active Directory Hybrid Health ADFS Environment A new server has been added to an Azure Active Directory Hybrid Health AD FS Environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | A Service Principal was created in Azure A Service Principal was created in Azure. This could indicate a malicious actor attempting to gain access to a resource. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Initial Access, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | A Service Principal was removed from Azure A service principal was removed from Azure. This indicates a change in access permissions and may indicate malicious activity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | A user logged in to the AWS console for the first time A user logged in to the AWS console for the first time. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Initial Access, Persistence, Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | Abnormal Allocation of compute resources in multiple regions An identity allocated an unusual compute resource pool, suspected as mining activity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact, Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | AI safeguards deletion attempt A cloud identity deleted AI safeguards. MITRE ATLAS Technique: AML.T0015 - Evade ML Model. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | AI safeguards were modified A cloud identity modified AI safeguards. MITRE ATLAS Technique: AML.T0015 - Evade ML Model. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | Allocation of multiple cloud compute resources An identity allocated multiple compute resources. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact, Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS database service master user password was changed An AWS database service master user password was changed. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS EC2 instance containing sensitive data was exported A EC2 instance was exported to an S3 bucket. The instance was found to contain sensitive data. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS EC2 instance was exported from a production account An EC2 instance was exported from a production account to an S3 bucket. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS EC2 instance was exported into an unknown S3 bucket An EC2 instance was exported to an unknown S3 bucket. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS EFS File-share mount was deleted An AWS EFS File-share mount was deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS EFS file-share was deleted An AWS EFS File-share has been deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS EKS cluster was created or deleted An AWS EKS cluster has been created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Initial Access, Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS GuardDuty IP set was created An AWS GuardDuty IP set has been created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS Lambda Function was created An AWS Lambda Function was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Execution, Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS Lambda function was modified An AWS Lambda function was modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Execution |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS RDS Global Cluster Deletion An AWS RDS global cluster was deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS RDS instance was created from a snapshot A new AWS RDS instance was created from a publicly available RDS snapshot. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS Route 53 domain was transferred to another AWS account An AWS Route 53 domain was transferred to another AWS account. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Resource Development |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS S3 bucket configuration was modified An AWS S3 bucket configuration has been modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion, Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS SAML provider was modified An AWS SAML provider was modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Initial Access, Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An AWS SES identity was deleted An AWS SES identity has been deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure application reached a throttling API rate An Azure application has executed a high volume of Microsoft Graph API calls, causing a throttling error. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log, Microsoft Graph Logs | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure DNS Zone was modified An Azure DNS zone has been changed or removed, which may indicate malicious activity or a misconfiguration. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Command and Control |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Firewall rule collection group was modified or deleted An Azure Firewall rule collection group was modified or deleted. This could indicate a malicious actor attempting to bypass security measures. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure firewall rule group was modified An Azure firewall rule group was modified or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Firewall was modified An Azure Firewall was modified or deleted. This may indicate a security risk. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | An Azure identity performed multiple actions that were denied An identity performed multiple Microsoft Graph actions that were denied, which may indicate it is being misused. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log, Microsoft Graph Logs | Discovery |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Key Vault key was modified An Azure Key Vault key was modified. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Key Vault was modified Azure Key Vault has been modified or deleted by an Identity. This could be an indication of unauthorized access or malicious activity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Kubernetes Cluster was created or deleted An Azure Kubernetes Cluster was created or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Kubernetes Role or Cluster-Role was modified An Azure Kubernetes Role or Cluster-Role was modified or deleted. This could indicate malicious activity and should be investigated. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Kubernetes Role-Binding or Cluster-Role-Binding was modified or deleted An Azure Kubernetes Role-Binding or Cluster-Role-Binding was modified or deleted. This could indicate a security breach or malicious activity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Kubernetes Service Account was modified or deleted An Azure Kubernetes Service Account was modified or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Network Security Group was modified An Azure Network Security Group was modified or deleted. This could indicate malicious activity or a misconfiguration. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Point-to-Site VPN was modified An Azure Point-to-Site VPN was modified or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure SQL database was exported from a production subscription An Azure SQL database export was initiated. The database was exported from a production subscription. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure Suppression Rule was created An Azure Suppression Rule was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure virtual network Device was modified An Azure virtual network Device was modified or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure virtual network was modified An Azure virtual network has been modified or deleted. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure VM snapshot SAS URL was generated An identity generated a SAS URL for an Azure VM snapshot. SAS URLs allow others to download or export the snapshot. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure VM snapshot SAS URL was generated for export from a production subscription A SAS URL for an Azure VM snapshot was generated. The operation was performed within a production subscription. SAS URLs allow others to download or export the snapshot. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An Azure VPN Connection was modified Modification or removal of an Azure VPN connection was detected. This alert indicates a change to an existing VPN connection or the deletion of an existing connection. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An EBS snapshot block was downloaded An EBS snapshot block was downloaded using the EBS direct API. This may indicate an attacker's attempt to exfiltrate data from a volume snapshot in the cloud environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An Email address was added to AWS SES An Email address was added to AWS SES. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | An IAM group was created An IAM group was created. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity accessed a backup cloud storage An identity accessed a backup cloud storage. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity accessed a cloud storage for the first time An identity accessed a cloud storage resource for the first time. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity accessed Azure Kubernetes Secrets An identity has accessed or attempted to access Azure Kubernetes secrets or Config Objects. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Credential Access |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity attached an administrative policy to an IAM user or role An identity attached an administrative policy to an IAM user or role. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Privilege Escalation, Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity created or updated password for an IAM user An identity created or updated an AWS console password for an IAM user. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Privilege Escalation, Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity disabled bucket logging An identity disabled bucket logging. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | An identity initiated a download of multiple cloud objects An identity initiated a download of multiple cloud objects. This might be an indication for an adversary trying to exfiltrate data from cloud storage. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics | An identity performed a suspicious download of multiple cloud storage objects An identity downloaded multiple objects from cloud storage. This may indicate an attacker's attempt to download sensitive data from a bucket in the cloud environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity started an AWS SSM session An identity started an AWS SSM interactive session. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics BIOC | An identity was granted permissions to manage user access to Azure resources An identity was granted the User Access Administrator permission at the tenant scope. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics BIOC | An operation was performed by an identity from a domain that was not seen in the organization An operation was performed by an identity. This identity belongs to a domain that was not seen in the organization before. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | An RDS snapshot containing sensitive data was exported An RDS snapshot containing sensitive data was exported to an S3 bucket. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An RDS snapshot was exported from a production account An RDS snapshot was exported from a production account to an S3 bucket. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An RDS snapshot was exported to an unknown bucket An RDS snapshot was exported to an unknown S3 bucket. The destination bucket has not been seen in your tenant in the last 30 days. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | An unknown account was invited to the AWS organization An unknown account was invited to your AWS organization. The target account was not seen in your tenant for the last 30 days. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics BIOC | An unusual cloud identity was granted permissions to a BigQuery resource An unusual cloud identity was granted permissions to a BigQuery table or dataset. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Gcp Audit Log | Exfiltration, Defense Evasion |
| Analytics BIOC | An unusual read activity of cloud object An identity accessed a cloud object filetype for the first time. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics BIOC | Attempted Azure application access from unknown tenant A Microsoft Graph API was unsuccessfully executed by an Azure application from an unknown tenant. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log, Microsoft Graph Logs | Initial Access |
| Analytics BIOC | Aurora DB cluster stopped An Aurora DB cluster (RDS) was stopped. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Impact |