Cloud Service Discovery - T1526

(ATT&CK® Technique)

Definition

An adversary may attempt to enumerate the cloud services running on a system after gaining access. These methods can differ from platform-as-a-service (PaaS), to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or software-as-a-service (SaaS). Many services exist throughout the various cloud providers and can include Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Lambda Functions, Azure AD, etc. They may also include security services, such as AWS GuardDuty and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and logging services, such as AWS CloudTrail and Google Cloud Audit Logs.

D3FEND Inferred Relationships

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        graph LR;

     T1526["Cloud Service Discovery"] --> |reads| CloudConfiguration["Cloud Configuration"]; class T1526 OffensiveTechniqueNode;
        class CloudConfiguration ArtifactNode; click CloudConfiguration href "/dao/artifact/d3f:CloudConfiguration";
        click T1526 href "/offensive-technique/attack/T1526/"; click CloudConfiguration href "/dao/artifact/d3f:CloudConfiguration";              RestoreConfiguration["Restore Configuration"] -->
          | restores | CloudConfiguration["Cloud Configuration"];

          RestoreConfiguration["Restore Configuration"] -.->
            | may-restore | T1526["Cloud Service Discovery"] ;
          class RestoreConfiguration DefensiveTechniqueNode;
          class CloudConfiguration ArtifactNode;
          click RestoreConfiguration href "/technique/d3f:RestoreConfiguration";

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