Creation of new CRUD IAM policy and then privilege escalation.

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Detected creation of new CRUD IAM policy and usage of one of the attach policy operations (AttachUserPolicy/AttachRolePolicy/AttachGroupPolicy). This might indicate a privilege escalation technique that attackers could use.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 8a607285-d95c-473d-8aab-59920de63af6
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics PrivilegeEscalation
Techniques T1484
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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