# AWS - SES Enum

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## Basic Information

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is designed for **sending and receiving emails**. It enables users to send transactional, marketing, or notification emails efficiently and securely at scale. It **integrates well with other AWS services**, providing a robust solution for managing email communications for businesses of all sizes.

You need to register **identities**, which can be domains or emails addresses that will be able to interact with SES (e.g. send and receive emails).

### SMTP User

It's possible to connect to a **SMTP server of AWS to perform actions** instead of using the AWS API (or in addition). For this you need to create a user with a policy such as:

```json
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ses:SendRawEmail",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

Then, gather the **API key and secret** of the user and run:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/lisenet/ses-smtp-converter.git
cd ./ses-smtp-converter
chmod u+x ./ses-smtp-conv.sh
./ses-smtp-conv.sh <AccessKeyId> <SecretAccessKey>
```

It's also possible to do this from the AWS console web.

### Enumeration

> [!WARNING]
> Note that SES has 2 APIs: **`ses`** and **`sesv2`**. Some actions are in both APIs and others are just in one of the two.

```bash
# Get info about the SES account
aws sesv2 get-account
aws ses get-account-sending-enabled # Check if enabled

# Get registered domains and email addresses (identities)
aws ses list-identities
aws sesv2 list-email-identities
aws sesv2 get-email-identity --email-identity <identity> #Get at once all the attributes

# Get Resource Policies applied in the identity
aws ses list-identity-policies --identity <identity>
aws ses get-identity-policies --identity <identity> --policy-names <policy>
aws sesv2 get-email-identity-policies --email-identity <identity>

# Get attributes of the identity
## Check if verified
aws ses get-identity-verification-attributes --identities <identity>
## DKIM settings, relevant for identities that are domains not emails
aws ses get-identity-dkim-attributes --identities <identity>
## Get what happnes if the send mail from the identity fails
aws ses get-identity-mail-from-domain-attributes --identities <identity>
## otifications attributes
aws ses get-identity-notification-attributes --identities <identity>

# Get email templates
aws ses list-templates
aws ses get-template --template-name <name>
aws sesv2 list-email-templates
aws sesv2 get-email-template --template-name <name>

# Get custom verification email templates
## This is the email sent when an identity is verified, it can be customized
aws ses list-custom-verification-email-templates
aws sesv2 list-custom-verification-email-templates
aws ses get-custom-verification-email-template --template-name <name>
aws sesv2 get-custom-verification-email-template --template-name <name>

# Get receipt rule sets
## Receipt rules indicate how to handle incoming mail by executing an ordered list of actions
aws ses list-receipt-rule-sets
aws ses describe-receipt-rule-set --rule-set-name <name>
aws ses describe-receipt-rule-set --rule-set-name <name> --rule-name <name>
## Metadata and receipt rules for the receipt rule set that is currently active
aws ses describe-active-receipt-rule-set

# Get suppressed destinations
aws sesv2 list-suppressed-destinations
aws sesv2 get-suppressed-destination --email-address <email>

# Get configuration sets
## These are set of rules applied to the identities related to the configuration set
aws ses list-configuration-sets
aws sesv2 list-configuration-sets
aws ses describe-configuration-set --configuration-set-name <name> --configuration-set-attribute-names eventDestinations trackingOptions deliveryOptions reputationOptions
aws sesv2 get-configuration-set --configuration-set-name <name>
aws sesv2 get-configuration-set-event-destinations --configuration-set-name <name>

# Get Contacts list
aws sesv2 list-contact-lists
aws sesv2 list-contacts --contact-list-name <name>
aws sesv2 get-contact-list --contact-list-name <name>
aws sesv2 get-contact --contact-list-name <name> --email-address <name>

# Private IPs
aws sesv2 list-dedicated-ip-pools
aws sesv2 get-dedicated-ip-pool --pool-name <name>
aws sesv2 get-dedicated-ips --pool-name <name> #Only valid if ScalingMode is Standard
aws sesv2 get-dedicated-ip --ip <ip>

# Misc
## Get send quota
aws ses get-send-quota
## Get statistics
aws ses get-send-statistics
```

### Post Exploitation

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../aws-post-exploitation/aws-ses-post-exploitation.md
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