IAM Privilege Escalation by Instance Profile attachment

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'An instance profile is a container for an IAM role that you can use to pass role information to an EC2 instance when the instance start. Identifies when existing role is removed and new/existing high privileged role is added to instance profile. Any instance with this instance profile attached is able to perform privileged operations. AWS Instance Profile: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_switch-role-ec2_instance-profiles.html and CloudGoat - IAM PrivilegeEscalati

Attribute Value
Type Hunting Query
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID e1a91db8-f2b3-4531-bff6-da133d4f4f1a
Tactics PrivilegeEscalation
Techniques T1098
Required Connectors AWS, AWSS3
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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 "AddRoleToInstanceProfile,RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile" ?

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