AWS Bedrock API Key Used for Destructive or Anti-Recovery Action

Description

Identifies an Amazon Bedrock API key (bearer token) being used to perform a destructive or anti-recovery control-plane action, such as deleting a guardrail, deleting a custom or imported model, removing provisioned throughput, or disabling model invocation logging. Bedrock API keys are bearer credentials intended for model invocation (InvokeModel, Converse); using one to delete Bedrock resources or disable logging is inconsistent with that purpose and is characteristic of LLMjacking or sabotage following key theft. Every Bedrock API key call is identifiable in CloudTrail by "additionalEventData.callWithBearerToken" being true. The rule matches regardless of outcome, because a destructive attempt via a bearer token is suspicious even when denied.

Detection logic

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Detection requirements

Platform: Containers ESXi IaaS Identity Provider Linux macOS Network Devices Office Suite Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.

Known benign triggers

Automation that intentionally manages Bedrock resources using an API key could match. Confirm the principal in "aws.cloudtrail.user_identity.arn", the affected resource in "aws.cloudtrail.request_parameters", and whether the change was expected. Known maintenance principals can be excluded after validation.

References

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Reference	Class	Cited by
docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/api-keys.html	Product documentation	3
www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/aws-bedrock-security-api-keys	Unclassified	3
www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/aws-bedrock-security-guide-api-keys-detection-response	Unclassified	4

Detection rules

AWS Bedrock API Key Used for Destructive or Anti-Recovery Action

Description

Detection logic

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Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

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