AWSCloudTrail - IAM Privileged Role Attached to Instance
Identifies when a privileged IAM role is attached to an existing or new instance, which may indicate privilege escalation to administrative level.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- IaaSIdentity ProviderSaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source service
- awscloudtrail
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 0db42a94-e7c8-4bf1-99a7-1a2fb4158212
- Tagged by the source as
- PrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1