AWS - Step Functions Persistence

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Step Functions

For more information check:

AWS - Step Functions Enum

Step function Backdooring

Backdoor a step function to make it perform any persistence trick so every time it's executed it will run your malicious steps.

Backdooring aliases

If the AWS account is using aliases to call step functions it would be possible to modify an alias to use a new backdoored version of the step function.

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