AWS User Login Profile Was Modified

Detects activity when someone is changing passwords on behalf of other users. An attacker with the "iam:UpdateLoginProfile" permission on other users can change the password used to login to the AWS console on any user that already has a login profile setup.

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 1title: AWS User Login Profile Was Modified
 2id: 055fb148-60f8-462d-ad16-26926ce050f1
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Detects activity when someone is changing passwords on behalf of other users.
 6    An attacker with the "iam:UpdateLoginProfile" permission on other users can change the password used to login to the AWS console on any user that already has a login profile setup.    
 7references:
 8    - https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/AWS-IAM-Privilege-Escalation
 9author: toffeebr33k
10date: 2021/08/09
11modified: 2024/04/26
12tags:
13    - attack.persistence
14    - attack.t1098
15logsource:
16    product: aws
17    service: cloudtrail
18detection:
19    selection:
20        eventSource: 'iam.amazonaws.com'
21        eventName: 'UpdateLoginProfile'
22    filter_main_user_identity:
23        userIdentity.arn|fieldref: requestParameters.userName
24    condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
25falsepositives:
26    - Legitimate user account administration
27level: high

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