Access Secret In Secrets Manager (aws)

Platform	Author	Last Update
aws	Nick Jones	2024-12-02

An adversary may attempt to access the secrets in secrets manager, to steal certificates, credentials or other sensitive material

MITRE IDs

T1528

Required Permissions

secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
kms:Decrypt

Required Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
secretid	str	ID of secret to access, either ARN or friendly name	leonidas_created_secret

Attacker Action

aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id leonidas_created_secret

Detection Case

ELK query

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

eventName:GetSecretValue AND eventSource:*.secretsmanager.amazonaws.com

Sigma Definition

---
title: Access Secret in Secrets Manager
id: cbeba6f0-019e-4782-8c7e-e21b10521eed
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2024-12-02
description: An adversary may attempt to access the secrets in secrets manager, to steal certificates, credentials or other sensitive material
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.secretsmanager.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "GetSecretValue"
  condition: selection_source and events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1528


falsepositives:
  - Developers making legitimate changes to the environment. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment.