AWSCloudTrail - EC2 Instance Launched Without Key Pair

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Detects EC2 RunInstances events without a key pair and with user data present, which may indicate malicious startup script execution on newly provisioned instances.

Attribute	Value
Type	Hunting Query
Solution	Amazon Web Services
ID	81a8880f-cc20-40ce-98d6-2fc6a1c5b9a4
Severity	High
Tactics	Execution
Techniques	T1204, T1059
Required Connectors	AWS
Source	View on GitHub

Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table	Selection Criteria	Transformations	Ingestion API	Lake-Only
AWSCloudTrail	EventName == "RunInstances" RequestParameters contains "userData"	✓	✓	✓

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