MITRE ATT&CKsub-technique

T1087.004 Cloud Account

Published 2020-02-21 Modified 2025-10-24 Official page ↗
Domain
enterprise
Tactics
Discovery
Platforms
IaaS, Identity Provider, Office Suite, SaaS
Version
1.3
Created
2020-02-21

Description

Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of cloud accounts. Cloud accounts are those created and configured by an organization for use by users, remote support, services, or for administration of resources within a cloud service provider or SaaS application. With authenticated access there are several tools that can be used to find accounts. The Get-MsolRoleMember PowerShell cmdlet can be used to obtain account names given a role or permissions group in Office 365. The Azure CLI (AZ CLI) also provides an interface to obtain user accounts with authenticated access to a domain. The command az ad user list will list all users within a domain. The AWS command aws iam list-users may be used to obtain a list of users in the current account while aws iam list-roles can obtain IAM roles that have a specified path prefix. In GCP, gcloud iam service-accounts list and gcloud projects get-iam-policy may be used to obtain a listing of service accounts and users in a project.

Related

Subtechnique of · MITRE ATT&CK (1)

  • T1087 Account Discovery technique

Tactic · MITRE ATT&CK (1)

Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · mitigates (2)

  • M1047 Audit mitigation
  • M1018 User Account Management mitigation

Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · uses (7)

  • S9043 Mini Shai-Hulud software (malware)
  • G1053 Storm-0501 group
  • S1091 Pacu software (tool)
  • C0027 C0027 campaign
  • S0684 ROADTools software (tool)
  • S0677 AADInternals software (tool)
  • G0016 APT29 group

Referenced by Compliance · mitigates (7)

  • CIS-6.8 Define and Maintain Role-Based Access Control CIS Safeguard v8.1
  • NIST-AC-2 Account Management NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-AC-3 Access Enforcement NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-AC-5 Separation of Duties NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-AC-6 Least Privilege NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-IA-2 Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users) NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-IA-8 Identification and Authentication (Non-organizational Users) NIST 800-53 control

References