AWSCloudTrail - Creation of EC2 policy and then privilege escalation

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Identifies creation of IAM policies that grant broad EC2 permissions or EC2 actions combined with IAM pass-role capability, followed by policy attachment activity. This pattern can indicate attempts to gain elevated cloud execution privileges and should be validated as authorized change activity.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID a694e977-740c-4578-9f8f-5e39029f1d23
Severity High
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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