aws_iam_privilege_escalation.yml

name: AWS IAM Privilege Escalation
id: ced74200-8465-4bc3-bd2c-22782eec6750
version: 2
date: '2024-09-24'
author: Bhavin Patel, Splunk
description: This analytic story contains detections that query your AWS Cloudtrail
  for activities related to privilege escalation.
narrative: 'Amazon Web Services provides a neat feature called Identity and Access
  Management (IAM) that enables organizations to manage various AWS services and resources
  in a secure way. All IAM users have roles, groups and policies associated with them
  which governs and sets permissions to allow a user to access specific restrictions.

  However, if these IAM policies are misconfigured and have specific combinations
  of weak permissions; it can allow attackers to escalate their privileges and further
  compromise the organization. Rhino Security Labs have published comprehensive blogs
  detailing various AWS Escalation methods. By using this as an inspiration, Splunks
  research team wants to highlight how these attack vectors look in AWS Cloudtrail
  logs and provide you with detection queries to uncover these potentially malicious
  events via this Analytic Story.'
references:
- https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/aws-privilege-escalation-methods-mitigation/
- https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/the-cloud-shadow-admin-threat-10-permissions-to-protect
- https://labs.bishopfox.com/tech-blog/privilege-escalation-in-aws
tags:
  category:
  - Cloud Security
  product:
  - Splunk Security Analytics for AWS
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  usecase: Security Monitoring