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Enumerate IAM Permissions with GetAccountAuthorizationDetails

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

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

MITRE IDs

Required Permissions

  • iam:GetAccountAuthorizationDetails

Required Parameters

None

Attacker Action

aws iam get-account-authorization-details

Detection Case

ELK query

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

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

Sigma Definition

---
title: Enumerate IAM Permissions with GetAccountAuthorizationDetails
id: 53597a1f-06bd-4a81-9378-7e889fed52c4
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to enumerate the configured IAM users 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: "GetAccountAuthorizationDetails"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1069.003