Delete Iam Role (aws)

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

An adversary may attempt to delete an IAM role within an account, to alter legitimate access or block administrative activity.

MITRE IDs

• T1531

Required Permissions

• iam:DeleteRole

Required Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
role	str	IAM role to delete	example_role

Attacker Action

aws iam delete-role --role-name example_role

Detection Case

ELK query

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

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

Sigma Definition

---
title: Delete IAM Role
id: 999d40d4-9f65-4b5c-ad2d-349a07a4b6c3
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2024-12-02
description: An adversary may attempt to delete an IAM role within an account, to alter legitimate access or block administrative activity.
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.iam.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "DeleteRole"
  condition: selection_source and events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1531


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.