AWSCloudTrail - Creation of CRUD DynamoDB policy and then privilege escalation

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Identifies creation of IAM policies that provide broad CRUD permissions for DynamoDB, followed by policy attachment activity. This sequence can indicate an attempt to grant capabilities that support privilege escalation and should be validated against approved administrative changes.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 6f675c17-7a61-440c-abd1-c73ef4d748ec
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics DefenseEvasion, PrivilegeEscalation, Persistence
Techniques T1484, T1098.003
Required Connectors AWS
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
AWSCloudTrail EventName in "AttachGroupPolicy,AttachRolePolicy,AttachUserPolicy,CreatePolicy,CreatePolicyVersion"

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