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IMDSPOOF is a cyber deception tool that spoofs an AWS IMDS service. One way that attackers are able to escalate privileges or move laterally in a cloud environment is by retrieving AWS Access keys from the IMDS service endpoint located at http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/<user>. This tool spoofs that endpoint and redirects traffic sent to 169.254.169.254 to a local webserver that serves fake …
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