Ethical hacking in platforms like AWS is becoming more crucial than ever. AWS, being one of the top cloud platforms, is both powerful and complex, which also means that there’s a lot that can go wrong if it's not configured correctly. That’s where ethical hackers, like you, step in — to find and fix vulnerabilities before the bad guys do.
Let’s dive into a few cool parts of AWS hacking, breaking it down into IAM users, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and how credentials can be compromised.
IAM User Exploitation: Finding the Keys to the Kingdom
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is like the gatekeeper in AWS. It controls who can do what in your AWS environment — setting the permissions for users and services. So, if you’re an ethical hacker looking for weak points, IAM is a juicy place to start.
You’ll likely use Pacu, an AWS exploitation framework designed to simulate attacks and help identify weaknesses. Think of it as a hacker’s toolkit for AWS. One of the first things you’d do is create a new IAM user with specific access keys — because those keys let you act on behalf of that user.
Once you have your keys and Pacu is set up to connect to AWS, you can start probing. Pacu’s iam_enum_permissions command is like the detective that tells you what permissions this IAM user has. Sometimes, misconfigured users have way more permissions than they should, and this is where ethical hackers start rubbing their hands together — because more permissions....
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