AWS SAML Activity

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Identifies when SAML activity has occurred in AWS. An adversary could manipulate SAML to maintain access to the target.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-aws*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-25m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

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

Version: 4 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.16.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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SAML Provider could be updated by a system administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. SAML Provider updates by 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:(iam.amazonaws.com or
sts.amazonaws.com) and event.action:(Assumerolewithsaml or
UpdateSAMLProvider) and event.outcome:success

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 4 (8.4.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:(iam.amazonaws.com or
    sts.amazonaws.com) and event.action:(Assumerolewithsaml or
    UpdateSAMLProvider) and event.outcome:success
Version 2 (8.1.0 release)
  • Formatting only