DeleteUserPolicy

CSP: AWS

Tactics:

Defense Evasion Privilege Escalation

Techniques:

T1562T1548

Tags:

AWS IAM

Event

Deletes an inline policy embedded directly in an IAM user.

Security Context

• Impairing defenses allows adversaries to operate freely by removing security controls that would otherwise detect or block their activity.
• Abusing elevation control mechanisms allows adversaries to bypass intended access restrictions and operate with higher privileges.

Log Source

CloudTrail

Sample Event

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

Tactics: Defense Evasion Privilege Escalation

Techniques:

• T1562 — Impair Defenses — Adversaries may maliciously modify components of a victim environment in order to hinder or disable defensive mechanisms. This not only involves impairing preventative defenses, such as firewalls and anti-virus, but also detection capabilities that defenders can use to audit activity and identify...
• T1548 — Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism — Adversaries may circumvent mechanisms designed to control elevate privileges to gain higher-level permissions. Most modern systems contain native elevation control mechanisms that are intended to limit privileges that a user can perform on a machine.