AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Profile Creation

Last updated 2 months ago on 2025-11-12

Created 2 years ago on 2024-04-20

About

Detects the creation of a new AWS IAM Roles Anywhere profile. Roles Anywhere allows workloads or external systems to assume IAM roles from outside AWS by authenticating via trusted certificate authorities (trust anchors). Adversaries who have established persistence through a rogue trust anchor may create or modify profiles to link them with highly privileged roles, enabling long-term external access to the AWS environment. This rule identifies successful "CreateProfile" API calls and helps detect potentially unauthorized or risky external access configurations.

Tags

Domain: CloudData Source: AWSData Source: Amazon Web ServicesData Source: AWS IAMUse Case: Identity and Access AuditTactic: PersistenceLanguage: kuery

Severity

low

Risk Score

MITRE ATT&CK™

Persistence (TA0003)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Account Manipulation (T1098)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

False Positive Examples

AWS Roles Anywhere profiles are legitimate profiles that can be created by administrators to allow access from any location. Ensure that the profile created is expected and that the trust policy is configured securely.

License

Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type: Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack: Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns: filebeat-*logs-aws.cloudtrail-*
Related Integrations: aws(external, opens in a new tab or window)
Query

✄𐘗text code block:
✄𐘗event.dataset: aws.cloudtrail
    and event.provider: rolesanywhere.amazonaws.com
    and event.action: CreateProfile
    and event.outcome: success

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Profile Creation in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).