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Isai 1c59a6adde [Rule Tuning] Potential AWS S3 Bucket Ransomware Note Uploaded (#5657)
* [Rule Tuning] Potential AWS S3 Bucket Ransomware Note Uploaded

This rule was very loud in telemetry since it's last tuning. ~8,938 alerts in last 24 hours. All false positives due to regex pattern matches for file names like `enc` as part of /filetransfertmsadherence/ and absence/; `lock` as part of citations-blocks/.

I've reworked this rule based on more research into common ransom note file name keywords and replaced the list here with the most common keywords. For `file` (the most common) and `back`, I was still seeing false positives so decided to alert on a combination of either or these 2 words in conjunction with any of the other words from the list. I also changed the regex to be case-insensitive.

With this new query, I see only true positive results within the last year all from known testing events.

I changed the toml file name so the rule looks new but it is just tuned.

I've updated the description and investigation guide, and added the study I used as a reference: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/10/11/145#computers-10-00145-f002

Test data is in our stack, script for executing is here:

Screenshot of new working query in our test stack

* Apply suggestions from code review

* removing redundany regex pattern
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rules/

Rules within this folder are organized by solution or platform. The structure is flattened out, because nested file hierarchies are hard to navigate and find what you're looking for. Each directory contains several .toml files, and the primary ATT&CK tactic is included in the file name when it's relevant (i.e. windows/execution_via_compiled_html_file.toml)

folder description
. Root directory where rules are stored
apm/ Rules that use Application Performance Monitoring (APM) data sources
cross-platform/ Rules that apply to multiple platforms, such as Windows and Linux
integrations/ Rules organized by Fleet integration
linux/ Rules for Linux or other Unix based operating systems
macos/ Rules for macOS
ml/ Rules that use machine learning jobs (ML)
network/ Rules that use network data sources
promotions/ Rules that promote external alerts into detection engine alerts
windows/ Rules for the Microsoft Windows Operating System

Integration specific rules are stored in the integrations/ directory:

folder integration
aws/ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
azure/ Microsoft Azure
cyberarkpas/ Cyber Ark Privileged Access Security
endpoint/ Elastic Endpoint Security
gcp/ Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
google_workspace/ Google Workspace (formerly GSuite)
o365/ Microsoft Office
okta/ Oka