AWSCloudTrail - NRT Login to AWS Management Console without MFA

Status: available
Severity: low
Group by: AWSRegion, AccountName, AccountUPNSuffix, EventName, EventTypeName, LoginResult, MFAUsed, RecipientAccountId, SessionMfaAuthenticated, SourceIpAddress, UserAgent, UserIdentityAccountId, UserIdentityPrincipalid, UserIdentityUserName
Source: github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel

'Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) helps you to prevent credential compromise. This alert identifies logins to the AWS Management Console without MFA. You can limit this detection to trigger for administrative accounts if you do not have MFA enabled on all accounts. This is done by looking at the eventName ConsoleLogin and if the AdditionalEventData field indicates MFA was NOT used and the ResponseElements field indicates NOT a Failure. Thereby indicating that a non-MFA login was successful.'

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Initial Access	`T1078` Valid Accounts
Persistence	`T1078` Valid Accounts
Privilege Escalation	`T1078` Valid Accounts
Stealth	`T1078` Valid Accounts

Rules detecting the same action

Other rules on this platform that filter on the same API call or operation.

AWS Console Login (Panther)
AWS Console Login Failed During MFA Challenge (Splunk)
AWS ConsoleLogin Failed Authentication (Sigma)
AWS CreateLoginProfile (Splunk)
AWS Credential Access Failed Login (Splunk)
AWS High Number Of Failed Authentications For User (Splunk)
AWS High Number Of Failed Authentications From Ip (Splunk)
AWS Multiple Failed MFA Requests For User (Splunk)

Rule body kusto

id: 0ee2aafb-4500-4e36-bcb1-e90eec2f0b9b
name: AWSCloudTrail - NRT Login to AWS Management Console without MFA
description: |
  'Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) helps you to prevent credential compromise. This alert identifies logins to the AWS Management Console without MFA.
  You can limit this detection to trigger for administrative accounts if you do not have MFA enabled on all accounts.
  This is done by looking at the eventName ConsoleLogin and if the AdditionalEventData field indicates MFA was NOT used and the ResponseElements field indicates NOT a Failure. Thereby indicating that a non-MFA login was successful.'
severity: Low
status: Available
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: AWS
    dataTypes:
      - AWSCloudTrail
  - connectorId: AWSS3
    dataTypes:
      - AWSCloudTrail
tactics:
  - DefenseEvasion
  - PrivilegeEscalation
  - Persistence
  - InitialAccess
relevantTechniques:
  - T1078
query: |
  AWSCloudTrail
  | where EventName =~ "ConsoleLogin"
  | extend MFAUsed = tostring(parse_json(AdditionalEventData).MFAUsed), LoginResult = tostring(parse_json(ResponseElements).ConsoleLogin)
  | where MFAUsed !~ "Yes" and LoginResult !~ "Failure"
  | where SessionIssuerUserName !contains "AWSReservedSSO"
  | extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
  | extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
  | extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
  | extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
    AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")
  | summarize StartTimeUtc = min(TimeGenerated), EndTimeUtc = max(TimeGenerated) by EventName, EventTypeName, LoginResult, MFAUsed, RecipientAccountId, AccountName, AccountUPNSuffix, UserIdentityAccountId,  UserIdentityPrincipalid, UserAgent,
    UserIdentityUserName, SessionMfaAuthenticated, SourceIpAddress, AWSRegion
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: AccountName
      - identifier: UPNSuffix
        columnName: AccountUPNSuffix
      - identifier: CloudAppAccountId
        columnName: RecipientAccountId
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: SourceIpAddress
version: 1.0.4
kind: NRT

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `source`

AWSCloudTrail

Stage 2: `where`

| where EventName =~ "ConsoleLogin"

Stage 3: `extend`

| extend MFAUsed = tostring(parse_json(AdditionalEventData).MFAUsed), LoginResult = tostring(parse_json(ResponseElements).ConsoleLogin)

Stage 4: `where`

| where MFAUsed !~ "Yes" and LoginResult !~ "Failure"

Stage 5: `where`

| where SessionIssuerUserName !contains "AWSReservedSSO"

Stage 6: `extend` (4 consecutive steps)

| extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
| extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
| extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
| extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
  AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")

Stage 7: `summarize`

| summarize StartTimeUtc = min(TimeGenerated), EndTimeUtc = max(TimeGenerated) by EventName, EventTypeName, LoginResult, MFAUsed, RecipientAccountId, AccountName, AccountUPNSuffix, UserIdentityAccountId,  UserIdentityPrincipalid, UserAgent,
  UserIdentityUserName, SessionMfaAuthenticated, SourceIpAddress, AWSRegion

Exclusions

Top-level NOT(...) conjuncts: predicates this rule actively suppresses.

Field	Kind	Excluded values
`SessionIssuerUserName`	contains	`AWSReservedSSO`

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

Field	Kind	Values
`EventName`	eq	`ConsoleLogin`
`LoginResult`	ne	`Failure`
`MFAUsed`	ne	`Yes`

Output fields

Fields the rule emits when it matches. Chronicle authors list these in the outcome block; they appear on the detection and $risk_score drives alerting. Sentinel / Defender XDR rules build them up through project / summarize / extend stages. Sentinel maps these into alert fields via entityMappings and customDetails; Defender XDR custom detections surface them as alert fields directly.

Field	Source
`AWSRegion`	`summarize`
`AccountName`	`summarize`
`AccountUPNSuffix`	`summarize`
`EndTimeUtc`	`summarize`
`EventName`	`summarize`
`EventTypeName`	`summarize`
`LoginResult`	`summarize`
`MFAUsed`	`summarize`
`RecipientAccountId`	`summarize`
`SessionMfaAuthenticated`	`summarize`
`SourceIpAddress`	`summarize`
`StartTimeUtc`	`summarize`
`UserAgent`	`summarize`
`UserIdentityAccountId`	`summarize`
`UserIdentityPrincipalid`	`summarize`
`UserIdentityUserName`	`summarize`

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AWSCloudTrail - NRT Login to AWS Management Console without MFA

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Stage 2: `where`

Stage 3: `extend`

Stage 4: `where`

Stage 5: `where`

Stage 6: `extend` (4 consecutive steps)

Stage 7: `summarize`

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AWSCloudTrail - NRT Login to AWS Management Console without MFA

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Rules detecting the same action

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Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: source

Stage 2: where

Stage 3: extend

Stage 4: where

Stage 5: where

Stage 6: extend (4 consecutive steps)

Stage 7: summarize

Exclusions

Indicators

Output fields

Stage 1: `source`

Stage 2: `where`

Stage 3: `extend`

Stage 4: `where`

Stage 5: `where`

Stage 6: `extend` (4 consecutive steps)

Stage 7: `summarize`