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AWSGuardDuty - GuardDuty Alert

Description

Identifies Amazon GuardDuty findings and creates a Microsoft Sentinel alert for each finding. Use the GuardDuty finding details in the alert to determine the specific malicious or suspicious activity that was detected.
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.7
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
5h
Query period
5h
Trigger
gt 0

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_findings.html 
AWSGuardDuty 
// Parse the finding
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_finding-format.html 
// Example: "ThreatPurpose:ResourceTypeAffected/ThreatFamilyName.DetectionMechanism!Artifact"
| extend findingTokens = split(ActivityType, ":")
| extend ThreatPurpose=findingTokens[0], findingTokens=split(findingTokens[1], "/")
| extend ResourceTypeAffected=findingTokens[0], findingTokens= split(findingTokens[1], ".")
| extend ThreatFamilyName=findingTokens[0], findingTokens=split(findingTokens[1], "!")
| extend DetectionMechanism=findingTokens[0], Artifact=findingTokens[1]
// Assign severity level
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_findings.html#guardduty_findings-severity
| extend Severity = 
    case (
      Severity >= 7.0, "High",
      Severity between (4.0 .. 6.9), "Medium",
      Severity between (1.0 .. 3.9), "Low",
      "Unknown"
    )
// Pull out any available resource details we can extract entities from. These may not exist in the alert.
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_Resource.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_AccessKeyDetails.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_RdsDbUserDetails.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_KubernetesDetails.html 
| extend AccessKeyDetails=ResourceDetails.accessKeyDetails
| extend RdsDbUserDetails=ResourceDetails.rdsDbUserDetails
| extend KubernetesDetails=ResourceDetails.kubernetesDetails
// Pull out any available action details we can extract entities from. These may not exist in the alert.
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_Action.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_AwsApiCallAction.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_KubernetesApiCallAction.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_NetworkConnectionAction.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_RdsLoginAttemptAction.html 
| extend ServiceAction = 
    case(
      isnotempty(ServiceDetails.action.awsApiCallAction), ServiceDetails.action.awsApiCallAction,
      isnotempty(ServiceDetails.action.kubernetesApiCallAction), ServiceDetails.action.kubernetesApiCallAction,
      isnotempty(ServiceDetails.action.networkConnectionAction), ServiceDetails.action.networkConnectionAction,
      isnotempty(ServiceDetails.action.rdsLoginAttemptAction), ServiceDetails.action.rdsLoginAttemptAction,
      dynamic(null)
    )
// The IPv4 remote address of the connection
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_RemoteIpDetails.html 
// or
// The IP of the Kubernetes API caller and the IPs of any proxies or load balancers between the caller and the API endpoint 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_KubernetesApiCallAction.html 
| extend RemoteIpAddress = 
    coalesce(
      tostring(ServiceAction.remoteIpDetails.ipAddressV4),
      tostring(parse_json(ServiceAction.sourceIPs)[0])
    )
// The IPv4 local address of the connection
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_LocalIpDetails.html 
| extend LocalIpAddress = ServiceAction.localIpDetails.ipAddressV4
// The AWS account ID of the remote API caller.
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_AwsApiCallAction.html 
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_RemoteAccountDetails.html 
| extend RemoteAWSAccountId = ServiceAction.remoteAccountDetails.accountId
// The IAM access key details (user information) of a user that engaged in the activity that prompted GuardDuty to generate a finding
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_AccessKeyDetails.html 
| extend AccountUpn = 
    case(
      AccessKeyDetails.userType == "IAMUser", AccessKeyDetails.userName,
      AccessKeyDetails.userType == "AssumedRole", split(AccessKeyDetails.principalId, ":", 1)[0],
      isnotempty(RdsDbUserDetails.user), RdsDbUserDetails.user,
      isnotempty(KubernetesDetails.kubernetesUserDetails.username), KubernetesDetails.kubernetesUserDetails.username,
      ""
    )
| extend AccountName = split(AccountUpn, "@", 0)[0]
| extend UPNSuffix = split(AccountUpn, "@", 1)[0]
// Clean up the output
| extend GuardDutyDetails =
    bag_pack( 
      "DetectorId", ServiceDetails.detectorId,
      "Partition", Partition,
      "Region", Region
    )
| extend FindingLink = 
    iff(
      isnotempty(Region) and isnotempty(Id),
      strcat("https://", Region, ".console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/home?region=", Region, "#/findings?fId=", Id),
      ""
    )
| extend FindingLinkDescription = 
    iff(
      isnotempty(FindingLink),
      strcat("Link to GuardDuty finding (AWS): ", FindingLink),
      ""
    )
| project-rename 
    FindingArn=Arn,
    FindingId=Id,
    AWSAccountId=AccountId
| project-away 
    ActivityType, 
    findingTokens,
    Partition,
    Region, 
    SchemaVersion,
    TimeGenerated,
    Type

Declared entities

AccountIPURL

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
bf0cde21-0c41-48f6-a40c-6b5bd71fa106
Additional source files 3Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_GuardDuty_template.yamlsource ↗Detections/AWSGuardDuty/AWS_GuardDuty_template.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Data/Solution_AmazonWebServices.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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