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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

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • AWS
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Identity and Access

Version: 101 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

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 known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guide

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Rule query
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event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:signin.amazonaws.com
and event.action:PasswordRecoveryRequested and event.outcome:success











Threat mapping
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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM














Rule version history
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Version 101 (8.6.0 release)








    

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Version 100 (8.5.0 release)








    

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Version 8 (8.4.0 release)








    

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Version 6 (8.3.0 release)








    

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Version 5 (7.13.0 release)








    

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    event.action:PasswordRecoveryRequested and
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Version 4 (7.12.0 release)








    

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Version 3 (7.11.2 release)








    

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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)








    

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