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AWSCloudTrail - User IAM Enumeration
Description
Detects enumeration of IAM account configuration via repeated API calls to list roles, users, groups, and policies within a short time period. The threshold can be adjusted to reduce false positives from authorized cloud scanners such as Wiz.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 10m
- Query period
- 10m
- 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 threshold = 50;
AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName in ("ListAttachedRolePolicies","ListRoles","ListGroupsForUser","ListAttachedUserPolicies","ListAccessKeys","ListUsers")
| summarize
count(),
make_set(AWSRegion),
make_set(UserAgent),
make_set(SourceIpAddress),
make_set(ErrorCode),
make_set(ErrorMessage),
make_set(EventName)
by bin(TimeGenerated, 10m), UserIdentityPrincipalid, UserIdentityArn, UserIdentityAccountId
| where count_ > threshold
| mv-expand set_SourceIpAddress
| extend UserName = substring(UserIdentityPrincipalid, indexof_regex(UserIdentityPrincipalid, ":") + 1)
| extend Name = split(UserName,'@')[0],UpnSuffix = split(UserName,'@')[1]
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
cfaaf0bc-16d1-48df-ac8b-9d901bbd516a
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC