Create Secret In Secrets Manager (aws)

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

An adversary may attempt to create secrets in secrets manager

MITRE IDs

T1527

Required Permissions

secretsmanager:CreateSecret

Required Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
name	str	Name of secret to create	leonidas_created_secret
secretstring	str	Value of secret to create	totallysecretvalue

Attacker Action

aws secretsmanager create-secret --name leonidas_created_secret --secret-string "totallysecretvalue"

Detection Case

ELK query

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

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

Sigma Definition

---
title: Create Secret in Secrets Manager
id: 289f5a24-9113-4bd3-a9f3-71af8f583b88
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2024-12-02
description: An adversary may attempt to create secrets in secrets manager
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.secretsmanager.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "CreateSecret"
  condition: selection_source and events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1527


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.