AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation with AdministratorAccess managed policy

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Id	139e7116-3884-4246-9978-c8f740770bdf
Rulename	AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation with AdministratorAccess managed policy
Description	Detects successful attachment of the AWS managed AdministratorAccess policy to users, roles, or groups. This action can immediately grant full administrative permissions and is a high-risk privilege escalation pattern that should be validated against approved administrative activity.
Severity	Medium
Tactics	PrivilegeEscalation Persistence
Techniques	T1098.003
Required data connectors	AWS
Kind	Scheduled
Query frequency	1d
Query period	1d
Trigger threshold	0
Trigger operator	gt
Source Uri	https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_PrivilegeEscalationAdministratorAccessManagedPolicy.yaml
Version	1.0.2
Arm template	139e7116-3884-4246-9978-c8f740770bdf.json

KQL

AWSCloudTrail
| where  EventName in ("AttachUserPolicy","AttachRolePolicy","AttachGroupPolicy") and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
| where tostring(parse_json(RequestParameters).policyArn) startswith "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess"
| extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
| extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
| extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
| extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
  AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")
| project TimeGenerated, EventName, EventTypeName, UserIdentityAccountId, UserIdentityPrincipalid, UserAgent,UserIdentityUserName, SessionMfaAuthenticated, SourceIpAddress, AWSRegion, EventSource, AdditionalEventData, RequestParameters, UserIdentityArn, ResponseElements, RecipientAccountId, AccountName, AccountUPNSuffix

YAML

status: Available
queryFrequency: 1d
queryPeriod: 1d
triggerOperator: gt
query: |
  AWSCloudTrail
  | where  EventName in ("AttachUserPolicy","AttachRolePolicy","AttachGroupPolicy") and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
  | where tostring(parse_json(RequestParameters).policyArn) startswith "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess"
  | extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
  | extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
  | extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
  | extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
    AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")
  | project TimeGenerated, EventName, EventTypeName, UserIdentityAccountId, UserIdentityPrincipalid, UserAgent,UserIdentityUserName, SessionMfaAuthenticated, SourceIpAddress, AWSRegion, EventSource, AdditionalEventData, RequestParameters, UserIdentityArn, ResponseElements, RecipientAccountId, AccountName, AccountUPNSuffix  
OriginalUri: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_PrivilegeEscalationAdministratorAccessManagedPolicy.yaml
tactics:
- PrivilegeEscalation
- Persistence
triggerThreshold: 0
entityMappings:
- entityType: Account
  fieldMappings:
  - identifier: Name
    columnName: AccountName
  - identifier: UPNSuffix
    columnName: AccountUPNSuffix
  - identifier: CloudAppAccountId
    columnName: RecipientAccountId
- entityType: IP
  fieldMappings:
  - identifier: Address
    columnName: SourceIpAddress
requiredDataConnectors:
- connectorId: AWS
  dataTypes:
  - AWSCloudTrail
alertDetailsOverride:
  alertDescriptionFormat: Detected {{EventName}} from {{SourceIpAddress}} attaching AdministratorAccess in account {{RecipientAccountId}}.
  alertDisplayNameFormat: AWS AdministratorAccess policy attachment by {{AccountName}}
relevantTechniques:
- T1098.003
customDetails:
  UserIdentityArn: UserIdentityArn
  EventName: EventName
  EventSource: EventSource
  AWSRegion: AWSRegion
description: |
  Detects successful attachment of the AWS managed AdministratorAccess policy to users, roles, or groups.
  This action can immediately grant full administrative permissions and is a high-risk privilege escalation pattern
  that should be validated against approved administrative activity.  
name: AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation with AdministratorAccess managed policy
version: 1.0.2
kind: Scheduled
id: 139e7116-3884-4246-9978-c8f740770bdf
severity: Medium

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