Enumerate IAM groups¶

Platform	Author	Last Update
aws	Nick Jones	2023-07-01

An adversary may attempt to enumerate the configured IAM groups within an account, to identify entities that they might wish to gain access to or backdoor.

MITRE IDs¶

T1069.003

Required Permissions¶

iam:ListGroups

Required Parameters¶

None

Attacker Action¶

aws iam list-groups

Detection Case¶

ELK query¶

When logs are ingested into ELK, the following Lucene query can be used to identify relevant events.

eventName:ListGroups AND eventSource:*.iam.amazonaws.com

Sigma Definition¶

---
title: Enumerate IAM groups
id: 88d0e794-1e66-4d93-bf3b-4628bd09aaa3
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to enumerate the configured IAM groups within an account, to identify entities that they might wish to gain access to or backdoor.
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.iam.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "ListGroups"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1069.003