Change Password For Current User (aws)

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

None

MITRE IDs

T1098

Required Permissions

iam:ChangePassword

Required Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
oldpassword	str	Previous password	oldpassword
newpassword	str	New password to set	newpassword

Attacker Action

aws iam change-password --old-password oldpassword --new-password newpassword

Detection Case

ELK query

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

eventName:ChangePassword AND eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com

Sigma Definition

---
title: Change Password for Current User
id: d3f79034-a239-40bb-815f-e1cdd91e648e
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2024-12-02
description: None
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "iam.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "ChangePassword"
  condition: selection_source and events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1098


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.