---
title: "AWS GuardDuty"
slug: "aws-guard-duty"
tags: ["Self Service Ingestion"]
updated: 2026-03-16T16:51:40Z
published: 2026-03-16T17:30:14Z
canonical: "docs.hunters.ai/aws-guard-duty"
---

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# AWS GuardDuty

Self Service Ingestion

          

Connect this data source on your own, using the Hunters platform.

## Overview

**Table name:** `aws_guard_duty`

![](https://cdn.document360.io/5f63f0e0-3c70-4d00-b623-82493be0bde5/Images/Documentation/image-1737412831447.png)[**Amazon GuardDuty**](https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/#:~:text=Amazon%20GuardDuty%20is%20a%20threat,findings%20for%20visibility%20and%20remediation.) is a threat detection service that continuously monitors AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation.

## Send data to Hunters

**To connect AWS Guard Duty logs:**

1. Follow this [guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_exportfindings.html) under the **Exporting findings to a bucket with the Console** section, and ship the logs to a destination bucket.
2. Once the export is completed and the logs are collected to S3, follow the steps in [this section](https://hunters.document360.io/docs/connect-data-through-aws-s3).

## Expected format

Logs are expected in JSON format.

```json
{
  "schemaVersion": "2.0",
  "accountId": "111122223333",
  "region": "us-west-2",
  "partition": "aws",
  "id": "FINDING_ID_000001",
  "arn": "arn:aws:guardduty:us-west-2:111122223333:detector/DETECTOR_ID_ABC123/finding/FINDING_UUID_00000000000000000000000000000000",
  "type": "Discovery:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior",
  "resource": {
    "resourceType": "AccessKey",
    "accessKeyDetails": {
      "accessKeyId": "AKIAEXAMPLE00000001",
      "principalId": "AIDAEXAMPLEPRINCIPAL1",
      "userType": "IAMUser",
      "userName": "iam_user_01"
    }
  },
  "service": {
    "serviceName": "guardduty",
    "detectorId": "DETECTOR_ID_ABC123",
    "action": {
      "actionType": "AWS_API_CALL",
      "awsApiCallAction": {
        "api": "ListBuckets",
        "serviceName": "s3.amazonaws.com",
        "callerType": "Remote IP",
        "remoteIpDetails": {
          "ipAddressV4": "203.0.113.10",
          "organization": {
            "asn": "65000",
            "asnOrg": "Example ASN Org",
            "isp": "Example ISP",
            "org": "Example Org"
          },
          "country": {
            "countryName": "Exampleland"
          },
          "city": {
            "cityName": "Example City"
          },
          "geoLocation": {
            "lat": 0.0,
            "lon": 0.0
          }
        },
        "affectedResources": {}
      }
    },
    "resourceRole": "TARGET",
    "additionalInfo": {
      "userAgent": {
        "fullUserAgent": "[Boto3/X.Y.Z Python/3.X.X OS/X.X.X Botocore/X.Y.Z Resource]",
        "userAgentCategory": "Botocore"
      },
      "anomalies": {
        "anomalousAPIs": "s3.amazonaws.com:[ListBuckets:success , GetBucketLifecycle:success]"
      },
      "profiledBehavior": {
        "rareProfiledAPIsAccountProfiling": "ListBuckets",
        "infrequentProfiledAPIsAccountProfiling": "",
        "frequentProfiledAPIsAccountProfiling": "GetIPSet , DescribeImages , ListTopics , ListRoles , GetBucketWebsite , DescribeReservedInstances , GetLifecyclePolicy , GetAccountSummary , DescribeScalingPolicies , DescribeAccountAttributes , DescribeSubnets , DescribeVolumes , DescribeAddresses , DescribeFileSystemPolicy , DescribeCustomerGateways , GetTopicAttributes , ListGroups , GetBucketTagging , DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
        "rareProfiledAPIsUserIdentityProfiling": "DescribeNatGateways , DescribeRouteTables , ListWebACLs",
        "infrequentProfiledAPIsUserIdentityProfiling": "",
        "frequentProfiledAPIsUserIdentityProfiling": "",
        "rareProfiledUserTypesAccountProfiling": "",
        "infrequentProfiledUserTypesAccountProfiling": "",
        "frequentProfiledUserTypesAccountProfiling": "IAM_USER , ASSUMED_ROLE , AWS_SERVICE , ROLE",
        "rareProfiledUserNamesAccountProfiling": "",
        "infrequentProfiledUserNamesAccountProfiling": "iam_user_01",
        "frequentProfiledUserNamesAccountProfiling": "iam_role_01 , iam_role_02 , iam_role_03 , iam_role_04 , iam_role_05 , iam_role_06 , iam_role_07 , iam_role_08 , iam_role_09 , iam_role_10 , iam_role_11 , iam_role_12 , iam_role_13 , iam_role_14 , iam_role_15 , iam_role_16 , iam_role_17 , iam_role_18 , iam_role_19 , iam_role_20 , iam_role_21",
        "rareProfiledASNsAccountProfiling": "asnNumber: 65101 asnOrg: Example ASN Org A asnNumber: 65102 asnOrg: Example ASN Org B asnNumber: 65103 asnOrg: Example ASN Org C asnNumber: 65104 asnOrg: Example ASN Org D",
        "infrequentProfiledASNsAccountProfiling": "asnNumber: 65201 asnOrg: Example ASN Org E asnNumber: 65202 asnOrg: Example ASN Org F",
        "frequentProfiledASNsAccountProfiling": "asnNumber: 65301 asnOrg: Example ASN Org G asnNumber: 65302 asnOrg: Example ASN Org H asnNumber: 65303 asnOrg: Example ASN Org I asnNumber: 65304 asnOrg: Example ASN Org J asnNumber: 65305 asnOrg: Example ASN Org K asnNumber: 65306 asnOrg: Example ASN Org L asnNumber: 65307 asnOrg: Example ASN Org M asnNumber: 65308 asnOrg: Example ASN Org N asnNumber: 65309 asnOrg: Example ASN Org O asnNumber: 65310 asnOrg: Example ASN Org P",
        "rareProfiledASNsUserIdentityProfiling": "asnNumber: 65401 asnOrg: Example ASN Org Q",
        "infrequentProfiledASNsUserIdentityProfiling": "asnNumber: 65402 asnOrg: Example ASN Org R",
        "frequentProfiledASNsUserIdentityProfiling": "",
        "rareProfiledUserAgentsAccountProfiling": "",
        "infrequentProfiledUserAgentsAccountProfiling": "",
        "frequentProfiledUserAgentsAccountProfiling": "aws-sdk-cloudformation , aws-sdk-cloudtrail , AWS Service , OTHER , aws-sdk-lambda , aws-sdk-emr , aws-sdk-configservice , aws-sdk-ec2 , Botocore , aws-sdk-efs , aws-internal/3 , aws-sdk-go , aws-sdk-elasticloadbalancingv2 , aws-sdk-elasticache , aws-sdk-kinesis , aws-sdk-java , aws-sdk-autoscaling , aws-sdk-dynamodb , aws-sdk-ruby2 , aws-sdk-nodejs",
        "rareProfiledUserAgentsUserIdentityProfiling": "",
        "infrequentProfiledUserAgentsUserIdentityProfiling": "Botocore",
        "frequentProfiledUserAgentsUserIdentityProfiling": ""
      },
      "unusualBehavior": {
        "unusualAPIsAccountProfiling": "",
        "unusualAPIsUserIdentityProfiling": "ListBuckets , GetBucketLifecycle",
        "unusualUserTypesAccountProfiling": "",
        "unusualUserNamesAccountProfiling": "",
        "unusualASNsAccountProfiling": "asnNumber: 65000 asnOrg: Example ASN Org",
        "unusualASNsUserIdentityProfiling": "asnNumber: 65000 asnOrg: Example ASN Org",
        "unusualUserAgentsAccountProfiling": "",
        "unusualUserAgentsUserIdentityProfiling": "",
        "isUnusualUserIdentity": "false"
      }
    },
    "eventFirstSeen": "2022-02-09T17:41:36.000Z",
    "eventLastSeen": "2022-02-09T17:45:31.000Z",
    "archived": false,
    "count": 1
  },
  "severity": 2,
  "createdAt": "2022-02-09T17:57:25.628Z",
  "updatedAt": "2022-02-09T17:57:25.628Z",
  "title": "User IAMUser : iam_user_01 is anomalously invoking APIs commonly used in Discovery tactics.",
  "description": "APIs commonly used in Discovery tactics were invoked by user IAMUser : iam_user_01, under anomalous circumstances. Such activity is not typically seen from this user."
}
```