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AWSCloudTrail - Creating keys with encrypt policy without MFA
Description
Identifies AWS KMS key creation or policy changes that allow `kms:Encrypt` or `kms:*` to any principal. This configuration can expose encryption capability outside approved boundaries and should be investigated as overly permissive or malicious.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.3
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 1d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let check_actions = AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName in ("CreateKey", "PutKeyPolicy") and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
| extend state=parse_json(parse_json(replace_string(tostring(parse_json(RequestParameters)['policy']),'\\"','"')).['Statement'])
| mv-expand state
| extend Action= tostring(parse_json(state.['Action'][0])), Effect=tostring(parse_json(state.['Effect'])),
Principal=tostring(parse_json(state.['Principal']))
| where Action in ("kms:Encrypt", "kms:*") and (Effect == 'Allow') and (Principal has "*")
| distinct AwsEventId;
AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName in ("CreateKey", "PutKeyPolicy") and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
| 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]), "")
| join kind=inner (check_actions) on AwsEventId
| extend timestamp = TimeGenerated
| project-away AwsEventId1
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
454133a7-5427-4a7c-bdc4-0adfa84dda16
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC