Suspicious credential token access of valid IAM Roles

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'Adversaries may generate temporary credentials of existing privileged IAM roles to access AWS resources that were not previously accessible to perform malicious actions. The credentials may be generated by trusted IAM user or via AWS Cloud Instance Metadata API. This query will look for AWS STS API Assume Role operations for RoleArn (Role Amazon Resource Names) which was not historically seen. You can also limit the query to only sensitive IAM Roles which needs to be monitored. Read more about

Attribute Value
Type Hunting Query
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 5b6ee21d-da53-46eb-827c-eab2a9ba3d2f
Tactics InitialAccess, DefenseEvasion
Techniques T1078
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 == "AssumeRole" ?

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