AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Trust Anchor Created with External CA

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Identifies when an AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Trust Anchor with an external certificate authority is created. AWS Roles Anywhere profiles are legitimate profiles that can be created by administrators to allow access from any location. This rule detects when a trust anchor is created with an external certificate authority that is not managed by AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM PCA). Adversaries may accomplish this to maintain persistence in the environment.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "DETECTION_ACTION_AWS_IAM_TRUST_ANCHOR_CREATED" AND (REQUESTPARAMETERS notcontains "sourceType:AWS_ACM_PCA") select Action1.CALLER,Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.IPADDRESS,Action1.LOG_EVENT_NAME,Action1.SOURCE,Action1.SOURCE_REGION,Action1.REQUESTPARAMETERS

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

AWS