Ec2 metadata service enumeration detection

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How to identify suspicious EC2 metadata enumeration activity? should we detect from cloudtrail or using cli to analyze EC2 access log? thanks

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To inspect suspicious traffic to the instance metadata service, I would check VPC Flow Logs. Those would have network connectivity that you could see if there are suspicious network traffic to the EC2 instance metadata service.

AWS GuardDuty comes with a VPC Flow Log Finding: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_finding-types-ec2.html#unauthorizedaccess-ec2-metadatadnsrebind (Keep in mind AWS GuardDuty does have a cost associated with the service: https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/pricing/).

I would also recommend using IMDSv2 if possible which is a session-based method compared to request/response of IMDSv1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service.html

VPC Flow Logs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html

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answered 2 years ago

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