aws detect role creation

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Description

This search provides detection of role creation by IAM users. Role creation is an event by itself if user is creating a new role with trust policies different than the available in AWS and it can be used for lateral movement and escalation of privileges.

• Type: Hunting

• Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud

• Last Updated: 2020-07-27
• Author: Rod Soto, Splunk
• ID: 5f04081e-ddee-4353-afe4-504f288de9ad

Annotations

ATT&CK

ID	Technique	Tactic
T1078	Valid Accounts	Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Kill Chain Phase

• Exploitation

NIST

CIS20

CVE

Search

`aws_cloudwatchlogs_eks` event_name=CreateRole action=created userIdentity.type=AssumedRole requestParameters.description=Allows* 
| table sourceIPAddress userIdentity.principalId userIdentity.arn action event_name awsRegion http_user_agent mfa_auth msg requestParameters.roleName requestParameters.description responseElements.role.arn responseElements.role.createDate 
| `aws_detect_role_creation_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

• aws_cloudwatchlogs_eks

Note that aws_detect_role_creation_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required field

• _time
• event_name
• action
• userIdentity.type
• requestParameters.description
• sourceIPAddress
• userIdentity.principalId
• userIdentity.arn
• action
• event_name
• awsRegion
• http_user_agent
• mfa_auth
• msg
• requestParameters.roleName
• requestParameters.description
• responseElements.role.arn
• responseElements.role.createDate

How To Implement

You must install splunk AWS add-on and Splunk App for AWS. This search works with cloudwatch logs

Known False Positives

CreateRole is not very common in common users. This search can be adjusted to provide specific values to identify cases of abuse. In general AWS provides plenty of trust policies that fit most use cases.

Associated Analytic story

• AWS Cross Account Activity

RBA

Risk Score	Impact	Confidence	Message
25.0	50	50	tbd

Reference

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