AmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtectionServiceRolePolicy

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Summary

GuardDuty malware protection uses the service-linked role (SLR) named AWSServiceRoleForAmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtection. This service-linked role allows GuardDuty malware protection to perform agent-less scans to detect malware. It allows GuardDuty to create snapshots in your account, and share the snapshots with the GuardDuty service account to scan for malware. It evaluates these shared snapshots and includes the retrieved EC2 instance metadata in the GuardDuty Malware Protection findings. The AWSServiceRoleForAmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtection service-linked role trusts the malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com service to assume the role.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtectionServiceRolePolicy
Default version: v2
Created: 2022-07-19
Last edited: 2024-01-25
Services: ebs, ec2, ecs, eks, kms, logs

Control-plane actions (22)

By access level: 8 List, 2 Permissions management, 3 Read, 1 Tagging, 8 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	7 of 834	3 List, 1 Permissions management, 1 Tagging, 2 Write; 4 restricted, 4 conditional	ec2:CreateSnapshot, ec2:CreateTags, ec2:DeleteSnapshot, ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeSnapshots, ec2:DescribeVolumes, ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute
Elastic Container Service	4 of 92	3 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ecs:DescribeTasks, ecs:ListClusters, ecs:ListContainerInstances, ecs:ListTasks
EKS	1 of 74	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	eks:DescribeCluster
KMS	4 of 58	1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 2 Write; 4 restricted, 3 conditional	kms:CreateGrant, kms:DescribeKey, kms:ReEncryptFrom, kms:ReEncryptTo
CloudWatch Logs	6 of 133	2 List, 4 Write; 6 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, logs:DescribeLogGroups, logs:DescribeLogStreams, logs:PutLogEvents, logs:PutRetentionPolicy

EC2: 7 actions

ec2:CreateSnapshot (Write)
ec2:CreateTags (Tagging)
ec2:DeleteSnapshot (Write)
ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:DescribeSnapshots (List)
ec2:DescribeVolumes (List)
ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute (Permissions management)

Elastic Container Service: 4 actions

ecs:DescribeTasks (Read)
ecs:ListClusters (List)
ecs:ListContainerInstances (List)
ecs:ListTasks (List)

EKS: 1 actions

eks:DescribeCluster (Read)

KMS: 4 actions

kms:CreateGrant (Permissions management)
kms:DescribeKey (Read)
kms:ReEncryptFrom (Write)
kms:ReEncryptTo (Write)

CloudWatch Logs: 6 actions

logs:CreateLogGroup (Write)
logs:CreateLogStream (Write)
logs:DescribeLogGroups (List)
logs:DescribeLogStreams (List)
logs:PutLogEvents (Write)
logs:PutRetentionPolicy (Write)

Data-plane actions (2)

By access level: 2 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Elastic Block Store	2 of 4	2 Read; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	ebs:GetSnapshotBlock, ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks

Elastic Block Store: 2 actions

ebs:GetSnapshotBlock (Read)
ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks (Read)

Excluded and conditional actions

ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute (deny-conditional, statement 6): 1 matching actions

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

Can be attached: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 11 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeAndListPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ecs:ListClusters",
        "ecs:ListContainerInstances",
        "ecs:ListTasks",
        "ecs:DescribeTasks",
        "eks:DescribeCluster"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateSnapshotVolumeConditionalStatement",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
      "Condition": {
        "Null": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/GuardDutyExcluded": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateSnapshotConditionalStatement",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "GuardDutyScanId"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateTagsPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:*/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateSnapshot"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AddTagsToSnapshotPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/GuardDutyScanId": "*"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "aws:TagKeys": [
            "GuardDutyExcluded",
            "GuardDutyFindingDetected"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DeleteAndShareSnapshotPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/GuardDutyScanId": "*"
        },
        "Null": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/GuardDutyExcluded": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "PreventPublicAccessToSnapshotPermission",
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:Add/group": "all"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateGrantPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:CreateGrant",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "Null": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/GuardDutyExcluded": "true"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:ebs:id": "snap-*"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "kms:GrantOperations": [
            "Decrypt",
            "CreateGrant",
            "GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext",
            "ReEncryptFrom",
            "ReEncryptTo",
            "RetireGrant",
            "DescribeKey"
          ]
        },
        "Bool": {
          "kms:GrantIsForAWSResource": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ShareSnapshotKMSPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:ReEncryptTo",
        "kms:ReEncryptFrom"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "ec2.*.amazonaws.com"
        },
        "Null": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/GuardDutyExcluded": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeKeyPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:DescribeKey",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "GuardDutyLogGroupPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:PutRetentionPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/guardduty/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "GuardDutyLogStreamPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:PutLogEvents",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/guardduty/*:log-stream:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "EBSDirectAPIPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ebs:GetSnapshotBlock",
        "ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/GuardDutyScanId": "*"
        },
        "Null": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/GuardDutyExcluded": "true"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2024-01-25. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.