Sigma rule: AWS Glue Development Endpoint Activity

Rule

Title

AWS Glue Development Endpoint Activity

Status

test

Level

low

Author

Austin Songer @austinsonger

Date

2021-10-03

Modified

2022-12-18

File

rules/cloud/aws/cloudtrail/aws_passed_role_to_glue_development_endpoint.yml

Commit

ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Detects possible suspicious glue development endpoint activity.

Log source

product

aws

service

cloudtrail

Detection

selection:
    eventSource: 'glue.amazonaws.com'
    eventName:
        - 'CreateDevEndpoint'
        - 'DeleteDevEndpoint'
        - 'UpdateDevEndpoint'
condition: selection

False positives (as the rule lists them)

• Glue Development Endpoint Activity may be performed by a system administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment.
• If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Tags

• attack.privilege-escalation

References

• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/aws-privilege-escalation-methods-mitigation/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/webapi/API_CreateDevEndpoint.html

Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/cloud/aws/cloudtrail/aws_passed_role_to_glue_development_endpoint.yml