Add a policy to a role¶
| Platform | Author | Last Update |
|---|---|---|
| aws | Nick Jones | 2023-07-01 |
An adversary may attempt to add a policy to a role, in order to grant additional privileges to a compromised resource.
MITRE IDs¶
Required Permissions¶
- iam:AttachUserPolicy
Required Parameters¶
| Name | Type | Description | Example Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| role | str | Role to add policy to | ReadOnlyRole |
| policyarn | str | Policy to add to Role | arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess |
Attacker Action¶
aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name --policy-arn
Detection Case¶
ELK query¶
When logs are ingested into ELK, the following Lucene query can be used to identify relevant events.
eventName:AttachRolePolicy
Sigma Definition¶
---
title: Add a policy to a role
id: cdf3b0fc-0c45-4bb4-89f2-1c6b2661ec52
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to add a policy to a role, in order to grant additional privileges to a compromised resource.
logsource:
service: cloudtrail
detection:
selection_source:
- eventSource: ""
events:
- eventName: "AttachRolePolicy"
condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
- attack.T1098