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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

AccountIP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
cfaaf0bc-16d1-48df-ac8b-9d901bbd516a
Additional source files 2Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_UserIAMEnumeration.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Data/Solution_AmazonWebServices.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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