Delete Login Profile For Existing User (aws)

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

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MITRE IDs

• T1531

Required Permissions

• iam:DeleteLoginProfile

Required Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
user	str	IAM user to delete the login profile for	root

Attacker Action

aws iam delete-login-profile -user-name user

Detection Case

ELK query

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

eventName:DeleteLoginProfile AND eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com

Sigma Definition

---
title: Delete login profile for existing user
id: 7c3333ce-9d4b-4704-8311-a4b68fe0f5f9
status: experimental
author: Nick Jones
date: 2024-12-02
description: None
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "iam.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "DeleteLoginProfile"
  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.