Suspicious EC2 launched without a key pair

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An attacker with limited permissions, or a sophisticated attacker disguising his activity, may have launched an EC2 instance without a key pair, allowing him to execute code on the machine using the UserData attribute (for example, by executing a reverse shell).

Attribute Value
Type Hunting Query
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 81a8880f-cc20-40ce-98d6-2fc6a1c5b9a4
Severity High
Tactics Execution
Techniques T1204
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 == "RunInstances" ?

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