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# Cloud email infrastructure enumeration activity

### Synopsis

| Field                | Value                                                                                  |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Activation Period    | 14 Days                                                                                |
| Training Period      | 30 Days                                                                                |
| Test Period          | 10 Minutes                                                                             |
| Deduplication Period | 1 Day                                                                                  |
| Required Data        | <p>Requires one of the following data sources:<br>AWS Audit Log OR Azure Audit Log</p> |
| Detection Modules    | Cloud                                                                                  |
| ATT\&CK Tactic       | Discovery (TA0007)                                                                     |
| ATT\&CK Technique    | Cloud Infrastructure Discovery (T1580), Cloud Service Discovery (T1526)                |
| Severity             | Informational                                                                          |

### Description

A cloud identity attempted to discover available email sending resources within the cloud environment. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the organization's email sending environment and discover cloud resources that may assist to send phishing emails or spam.

### Attacker's Goals

Map the cloud email environment and detect potential email resources to abuse.

### Investigative actions

* Check the identity's role designation in the organization.
* Identify which available email resources were discovered.
* Investigate if the discovered email resources were used to send phishing emails or spam, or perform other attacks in the cloud environment.


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