I'm officially off of AWS so don't have any consoles to check against, but back on a laptop. Based on docs and some of the concerns about this happening to so

I'm officially off of AWS so don't have any consoles to check against, but back on a laptop. Based on docs and some of the concerns about this happening to someone else, I would probably start with the following: 1. Check who/what created those EC2s[0] using the console to query: eventSource:ec2.amazonaws.com eventName:RunInstances 2. Based on the userIdentity field, query the following actions. 3. Check if someone manually logged into Console (identity dependent) [1]: eventSource:signin.amazonaws.com userIdentity.type:[Root/IAMUser/AssumedRole/FederatedUser/AWSLambda] eventName:ConsoleLogin 4. Check if someone authenticated against Security Token Service (STS) [2]: eventSource:sts.amazonaws.com eventName:GetSessionToken 5. Check if someone used a valid STS Session to AssumeRole: eventSource:sts.amazonaws.com eventName:AssumeRole userIdentity.arn (or other identifier) 6. Check for any new IAM Roles/Accounts made for persistence: eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com (eventName:CreateUser OR eventName:DeleteUser) 7. Check if any already vulnerable IAM Roles/Accounts modified to be more permissive [3]: eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com (eventName:CreateRole OR eventName:DeleteRole OR eventName:AttachRolePolicy OR eventName:DetachRolePolicy) 8. Check for any access keys made [4][5]: eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com (eventName:CreateAccessKey OR eventName:DeleteAccessKey) 9. Check if any production / persistent EC2s have had their IAMInstanceProfile changed, to allow for a backdoor using EC2 permissions from a webshell/backdoor they could have placed on your public facing infra. [6] etc. etc. But if you have had a compromise based on initial investigations, probably worth while getting professional support to do a thorough audit of your environment. [0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-log-file-examples.html#cloudtrail-log-file-examples-ec2 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/c... [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-event-reference-aws-console-sign-in-events.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/c... [2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/cloudtrail-integration.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/cloudtrail-... [3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/s... [4] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credenti... [5] https://research.splunk.com/sources/0460f7da-3254-4d90-b8c0-2ca657d0cea0/ https://research.splunk.com/sources/0460f7da-3254-4d90-b8c0-... [6] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_R...