AdministratorAccess Policy Attached to Role
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
An adversary with access to a set of compromised credentials may attempt to persist or escalate privileges by attaching additional permissions to compromised IAM roles. This rule looks for use of the IAMAttachRolePolicyAPI operation to attach the highly permissiveAdministratorAccessAWS managed policy to an existing IAM role.
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "DETECTION_ACTION_AWS_POLICY_ATTACHED_TO_ROLE" AND (POLICY_NAME = "AdministratorAccess") select Action1.CALLER,Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.IPADDRESS,Action1.LOG_EVENT_NAME,Action1.POLICY_NAME,Action1.SOURCE,Action1.SOURCE_REGION,Action1.REQUESTPARAMETERS
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
AWS
