IAM use cases

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) log data can be used to monitor user access to AWS services and resources. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and manage permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.

Below are some use cases for Wazuh rules built used for IAM events.

Create user account

When we create a new user account in IAM, an AWS event is generated. As previously mentioned, the log message is collected by the Wazuh agent, and forwarded to the manager for analysis. It is expected that these type of messages match rule 80861, resulting in an alert being generated, as can be seen in Kibana.

Definition of rule 80861 
<rule id="80861" level="2">
    <if_sid>80860</if_sid>
    <action>CreateUser</action>
    <description>Amazon-iam: User created</description>
    <group>amazon,pci_dss_10.2.5,</group>
</rule>
Kibana will show this alert

Create user account without permissions

If an unauthorized user attempts to create new users, then the log message generated will match rule 80862 and Kibana will show the alert as follows:

Definition of rule 80862 
<rule id="80862" level="2">
    <if_sid>80861</if_sid>
    <match>"errorCode":"AccessDenied"</match>
    <description>Amazon-iam: User creation denied</description>
    <group>amazon,pci_dss_10.2.4,pci_dss_10.2.5,</group>
</rule>
Kibana will show this alert

User login failed

When a user tries to log in with an invalid password, a new event will be generated matching rule 80802, generating an alert that will be shown in Kibana as follows:

Definition of rule 80802 
<rule id="80802" level="2">
    <if_sid>80801</if_sid>
    <match>'ConsoleLogin': u'Failure'</match>
    <description>Amazon-signin: User Login failed</description>
    <group>amazon,authentication_failed,pci_dss_10.2.4,pci_dss_10.2.5,</group>
</rule>
Kibana will show this alert

Possible break-in attempt

When more than 4 authentication failures occur in a 360 second time window, rule 80803 triggers the following alert:

Definition of rule 80803 
<rule id="80803" level="10" frequency="4" timeframe="360">
    <if_matched_sid>80802</if_matched_sid>
    <description>Possible breakin attempt (high number of login attempts).</description>
    <group>amazon,authentication_failures,pci_dss_11.4,pci_dss_10.2.4,pci_dss_10.2.5,</group>
</rule>
Kibana will show this alert

Login success

After a successful login, the rule 80801 will match the log message generated by this event, and a new alert will be shown in Kibana:

Definition of rule 80801 
<rule id="80801" level="2">
    <if_sid>80800</if_sid>
    <action>ConsoleLogin</action>
    <description>Amazon-signin: User Login Success</description>
    <group>amazon,authentication_success,pci_dss_10.2.5,</group>
</rule>
Kibana will show this alert

And here are the Kibana dashboards for IAM events:

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