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AWS IAM Password Recovery Requested

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AWS IAM Password Recovery Requested

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Identifies AWS IAM password recovery requests. An adversary may attempt to gain unauthorized AWS access by abusing password recovery mechanisms.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-aws*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 10 minutes

Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://www.cadosecurity.com/2020/06/11/an-ongoing-aws-phishing-campaign/

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Identity and Access

Version: 3 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positives

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Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be requesting changes in your environment. Password reset attempts from unfamiliar users should be investigated. If a known behavior is causing false positives, it can be excluded from the rule.

Investigation guide

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The AWS Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule query

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event.action:PasswordRecoveryRequested and
event.provider:signin.amazonaws.com and event.outcome:success

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Initial Access
- ID: TA0001
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0001/
Technique:
- Name: Valid Accounts
- ID: T1078
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1078/

Rule version history

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Version 3 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.10.0 release)

Formatting only

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