diff --git a/pkg/detectors/aws/aws.go b/pkg/detectors/aws/aws.go
index 0047f761176d..05b6675fb11d 100644
--- a/pkg/detectors/aws/aws.go
+++ b/pkg/detectors/aws/aws.go
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ var (
 
 	// Make sure that your group is surrounded in boundary characters such as below to reduce false positives.
 	// Key types are from this list https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_identifiers.html#identifiers-unique-ids
-	idPat     = regexp.MustCompile(`\b((?:AKIA|ABIA|ACCA|ASIA)[0-9A-Z]{16})\b`)
+	idPat     = regexp.MustCompile(`\b((?:AKIA|ABIA|ACCA)[0-9A-Z]{16})\b`)
 	secretPat = regexp.MustCompile(`[^A-Za-z0-9+\/]{0,1}([A-Za-z0-9+\/]{40})[^A-Za-z0-9+\/]{0,1}`)
 	// Hashes, like those for git, do technically match the secret pattern.
 	// But they are extremely unlikely to be generated as an actual AWS secret.
diff --git a/pkg/detectors/awssessionkeys/awssessionkey.go b/pkg/detectors/awssessionkeys/awssessionkey.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..12fbd688930e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/detectors/awssessionkeys/awssessionkey.go
@@ -0,0 +1,332 @@
+package awssessionkey
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"crypto/hmac"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/common"
+	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors"
+	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/pb/detectorspb"
+)
+
+type scanner struct {
+	verificationClient *http.Client
+	skipIDs            map[string]struct{}
+}
+
+func New(opts ...func(*scanner)) *scanner {
+	scanner := &scanner{
+		skipIDs: map[string]struct{}{},
+	}
+	for _, opt := range opts {
+
+		opt(scanner)
+	}
+
+	return scanner
+}
+
+func WithSkipIDs(skipIDs []string) func(*scanner) {
+	return func(s *scanner) {
+		ids := map[string]struct{}{}
+		for _, id := range skipIDs {
+			ids[id] = struct{}{}
+		}
+
+		s.skipIDs = ids
+	}
+}
+
+// Ensure the scanner satisfies the interface at compile time.
+var _ detectors.Detector = (*scanner)(nil)
+
+var (
+	defaultVerificationClient = common.SaneHttpClient()
+
+	// Make sure that your group is surrounded in boundary characters such as below to reduce false positives.
+	// Key types are from this list https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_identifiers.html#identifiers-unique-ids
+	idPat     = regexp.MustCompile(`\b((?:AKIA|ABIA|ACCA|ASIA)[0-9A-Z]{16})\b`)
+	secretPat = regexp.MustCompile(`\b[^A-Za-z0-9+\/]{0,1}([A-Za-z0-9+\/]{40})[^A-Za-z0-9+\/]{0,1}\b`)
+	sessionPat = regexp.MustCompile(`\b[^A-Za-z0-9+\/]{0,1}([A-Za-z0-9+=\/]{41,1000})[^A-Za-z0-9+=\/]{0,1}\b`)
+	// Hashes, like those for git, do technically match the secret pattern.
+	// But they are extremely unlikely to be generated as an actual AWS secret.
+	// So when we find them, if they're not verified, we should ignore the result.
+	falsePositiveSecretCheck = regexp.MustCompile(`[a-f0-9]{40}`)
+)
+
+// Keywords are used for efficiently pre-filtering chunks.
+// Use identifiers in the secret preferably, or the provider name.
+func (s scanner) Keywords() []string {
+	return []string{
+		"ASIA",
+	}
+}
+
+func GetHash(input string) string {
+	data := []byte(input)
+	hasher := sha256.New()
+	hasher.Write(data)
+	return hex.EncodeToString(hasher.Sum(nil))
+}
+
+func GetHMAC(key []byte, data []byte) []byte {
+	hasher := hmac.New(sha256.New, key)
+	hasher.Write(data)
+	return hasher.Sum(nil)
+}
+
+func checkSessionToken(sessionToken string, secret string) bool {
+	if !strings.Contains(sessionToken, "YXdz") || strings.Contains(sessionToken, secret){
+		// Handle error if the sessionToken is not a valid base64 string
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+
+// FromData will find and optionally verify AWS secrets in a given set of bytes.
+func (s scanner) FromData(ctx context.Context, verify bool, data []byte) (results []detectors.Result, err error) {
+	dataStr := string(data)
+
+	idMatches := idPat.FindAllStringSubmatch(dataStr, -1)
+	secretMatches := secretPat.FindAllStringSubmatch(dataStr, -1)
+	sessionMatches := sessionPat.FindAllStringSubmatch(dataStr, -1)
+
+	for _, idMatch := range idMatches {
+		if len(idMatch) != 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		resIDMatch := strings.TrimSpace(idMatch[1])
+
+		if s.skipIDs != nil {
+			if _, ok := s.skipIDs[resIDMatch]; ok {
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+
+		for _, secretMatch := range secretMatches {
+            if len(secretMatch) != 2 {
+                continue
+            }
+            resSecretMatch := strings.TrimSpace(secretMatch[1])
+
+		    for _, sessionMatch := range sessionMatches {
+                if len(sessionMatch) != 2 {
+                    continue
+                }
+                resSessionMatch := strings.TrimSpace(sessionMatch[1])
+                if !checkSessionToken(resSessionMatch, resSecretMatch){
+                    continue
+                }
+                s1 := detectors.Result{
+                    DetectorType: detectorspb.DetectorType_AWSSessionKey,
+                    Raw:          []byte(resIDMatch),
+                    Redacted:     resIDMatch,
+                    RawV2:        []byte(resIDMatch + resSecretMatch + resSessionMatch),
+                }
+
+                if verify {
+                    verified, extraData, verificationErr := s.verifyMatch(ctx, resIDMatch, resSecretMatch, resSessionMatch, true)
+                    s1.Verified = verified
+                    s1.ExtraData = extraData
+                    s1.VerificationError = verificationErr
+                }
+
+                if !s1.Verified {
+                    // Unverified results that contain common test words are probably not secrets
+                    if detectors.IsKnownFalsePositive(resSecretMatch, detectors.DefaultFalsePositives, true) {
+                        continue
+                    }
+                    // Unverified results that look like hashes are probably not secrets
+                    if falsePositiveSecretCheck.MatchString(resSecretMatch) {
+                        continue
+                    }
+                }
+
+                results = append(results, s1)
+                // If we've found a verified match with this ID, we don't need to look for any more. So move on to the next ID.
+                if s1.Verified {
+                    break
+                }
+            }
+        }
+	}
+	return awsCustomCleanResults(results), nil
+}
+
+func (s scanner) verifyMatch(ctx context.Context, resIDMatch, resSecretMatch string, resSessionMatch string, retryOn403 bool) (bool, map[string]string, error) {
+
+	// REQUEST VALUES.
+    method := "GET"
+    service := "sts"
+    host := "sts.amazonaws.com"
+    region := "us-east-1"
+    endpoint := "https://sts.amazonaws.com"
+    now := time.Now().UTC()
+    datestamp := now.Format("20060102")
+    amzDate := now.Format("20060102T150405Z")
+
+    req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, method, endpoint, nil)
+    if err != nil {
+        return false, nil, err
+    }
+    req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")
+
+    canonicalURI := "/"
+    canonicalHeaders := "host:" + host + "\n" + "x-amz-date:" + amzDate + "\n" + "x-amz-security-token:" + resSessionMatch + "\n"
+    signedHeaders := "host;x-amz-date;x-amz-security-token"
+    algorithm := "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256"
+    credentialScope := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/%s/aws4_request", datestamp, region, service)
+
+    params := req.URL.Query()
+    params.Add("Action", "GetCallerIdentity")
+    params.Add("Version", "2011-06-15")
+    canonicalQuerystring := params.Encode()
+    payloadHash := GetHash("") // empty payload
+    canonicalRequest := method + "\n" + canonicalURI + "\n" + canonicalQuerystring + "\n" + canonicalHeaders + "\n" + signedHeaders + "\n" + payloadHash
+
+    stringToSign := algorithm + "\n" + amzDate + "\n" + credentialScope + "\n" + GetHash(canonicalRequest)
+
+    hash := GetHMAC([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("AWS4%s", resSecretMatch)), []byte(datestamp))
+    hash = GetHMAC(hash, []byte(region))
+    hash = GetHMAC(hash, []byte(service))
+    hash = GetHMAC(hash, []byte("aws4_request"))
+
+    signature2 := GetHMAC(hash, []byte(stringToSign)) // Get Signature HMAC SHA256
+    signature := hex.EncodeToString(signature2)
+
+    authorizationHeader := fmt.Sprintf("%s Credential=%s/%s, SignedHeaders=%s, Signature=%s",
+        algorithm, resIDMatch, credentialScope, signedHeaders, signature)
+    
+    req.Header.Add("Authorization", authorizationHeader)
+    req.Header.Add("x-amz-date", amzDate)
+    req.Header.Add("x-amz-security-token", resSessionMatch)
+
+    // Rest of your code...
+
+	req.URL.RawQuery = params.Encode()
+
+	client := s.verificationClient
+	if client == nil {
+		client = defaultVerificationClient
+	}
+
+	extraData := map[string]string{
+		"rotation_guide": "https://howtorotate.com/docs/tutorials/aws/",
+	}
+
+	res, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err == nil {
+		defer res.Body.Close()
+		if res.StatusCode >= 200 && res.StatusCode < 300 {
+			identityInfo := identityRes{}
+			err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&identityInfo)
+			if err == nil {
+				extraData["account"] = identityInfo.GetCallerIdentityResponse.GetCallerIdentityResult.Account
+				extraData["user_id"] = identityInfo.GetCallerIdentityResponse.GetCallerIdentityResult.UserID
+				extraData["arn"] = identityInfo.GetCallerIdentityResponse.GetCallerIdentityResult.Arn
+				return true, extraData, nil
+			} else {
+				return false, nil, err
+			}
+		} else if res.StatusCode == 403 {
+			// Experimentation has indicated that if you make two GetCallerIdentity requests within five seconds that
+			// share a key ID but are signed with different secrets the second one will be rejected with a 403 that
+			// carries a SignatureDoesNotMatch code in its body. This happens even if the second ID-secret pair is
+			// valid. Since this is exactly our access pattern, we need to work around it.
+			//
+			// Fortunately, experimentation has also revealed a workaround: simply resubmit the second request. The
+			// response to the resubmission will be as expected. But there's a caveat: You can't have closed the body of
+			// the response to the original second request, or read to its end, or the resubmission will also yield a
+			// SignatureDoesNotMatch. For this reason, we have to re-request all 403s. We can't re-request only
+			// SignatureDoesNotMatch responses, because we can only tell whether a given 403 is a SignatureDoesNotMatch
+			// after decoding its response body, which requires reading the entire response body, which disables the
+			// workaround.
+			//
+			// We are clearly deep in the guts of AWS implementation details here, so this all might change with no
+			// notice. If you're here because something in this detector broke, you have my condolences.
+			if retryOn403 {
+				return s.verifyMatch(ctx, resIDMatch, resSecretMatch, resSessionMatch, false)
+			}
+			var body awsErrorResponseBody
+			err = json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body)
+			if err == nil {
+				// All instances of the code I've seen in the wild are PascalCased but this check is
+				// case-insensitive out of an abundance of caution
+				if strings.EqualFold(body.Error.Code, "InvalidClientTokenId") {
+					return false, nil, nil
+				} else {
+					return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("request to %v returned status %d with an unexpected reason (%s: %s)", res.Request.URL, res.StatusCode, body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
+				}
+			} else {
+				return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("couldn't parse the sts response body (%v)", err)
+			}
+		} else {
+			return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("request to %v returned unexpected status %d", res.Request.URL, res.StatusCode)
+		}
+	} else {
+		return false, nil, err
+	}
+}
+
+func awsCustomCleanResults(results []detectors.Result) []detectors.Result {
+	if len(results) == 0 {
+		return results
+	}
+
+	// For every ID, we want at most one result, preferably verified.
+	idResults := map[string]detectors.Result{}
+	for _, result := range results {
+		// Always accept the verified result as the result for the given ID.
+		if result.Verified {
+			idResults[result.Redacted] = result
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Only include an unverified result if we don't already have a result for a given ID.
+		if _, exist := idResults[result.Redacted]; !exist {
+			idResults[result.Redacted] = result
+		}
+	}
+
+	out := []detectors.Result{}
+	for _, r := range idResults {
+		out = append(out, r)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+type awsError struct {
+	Code    string `json:"Code"`
+	Message string `json:"Message"`
+}
+
+type awsErrorResponseBody struct {
+	Error awsError `json:"Error"`
+}
+
+type identityRes struct {
+	GetCallerIdentityResponse struct {
+		GetCallerIdentityResult struct {
+			Account string `json:"Account"`
+			Arn     string `json:"Arn"`
+			UserID  string `json:"UserId"`
+		} `json:"GetCallerIdentityResult"`
+		ResponseMetadata struct {
+			RequestID string `json:"RequestId"`
+		} `json:"ResponseMetadata"`
+	} `json:"GetCallerIdentityResponse"`
+}
+
+func (s scanner) Type() detectorspb.DetectorType {
+	return detectorspb.DetectorType_AWSSessionKey
+}
+
diff --git a/pkg/engine/defaults.go b/pkg/engine/defaults.go
index 52ed3fc74e62..9e7788f4cf77 100644
--- a/pkg/engine/defaults.go
+++ b/pkg/engine/defaults.go
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors/avazapersonalaccesstoken"
 	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors/aviationstack"
 	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors/aws"
+	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors/awssessionkeys"
 	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors/axonaut"
 	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors/aylien"
 	"github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3/pkg/detectors/ayrshare"
@@ -774,6 +775,7 @@ func DefaultDetectors() []detectors.Detector {
 		&linearapi.Scanner{},
 		&alibaba.Scanner{},
 		aws.New(),
+		awssessionkey.New(),
 		&azure.Scanner{},
 		&slack.Scanner{}, // has 4 secret types
 		&gitlab.Scanner{},
diff --git a/pkg/pb/detectorspb/detectors.pb.go b/pkg/pb/detectorspb/detectors.pb.go
index 23cdb2317e0b..d9658b2663f0 100644
--- a/pkg/pb/detectorspb/detectors.pb.go
+++ b/pkg/pb/detectorspb/detectors.pb.go
@@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ const (
 	DetectorType_IPInfo                        DetectorType = 939
 	DetectorType_Ip2location                   DetectorType = 940
 	DetectorType_Instamojo                     DetectorType = 941
+	DetectorType_AWSSessionKey                 DetectorType = 942
 )
 
 // Enum value maps for DetectorType.
@@ -1956,6 +1957,7 @@ var (
 		939: "IPInfo",
 		940: "Ip2location",
 		941: "Instamojo",
+		942: "AWSSessionKey",
 	}
 	DetectorType_value = map[string]int32{
 		"Alibaba":                       0,
@@ -2896,6 +2898,7 @@ var (
 		"IPInfo":                        939,
 		"Ip2location":                   940,
 		"Instamojo":                     941,
+		"AWSSessionKey":                 942,
 	}
 )
 
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 var (
diff --git a/proto/detectors.proto b/proto/detectors.proto
index aecb23639de2..9ff9e072213f 100644
--- a/proto/detectors.proto
+++ b/proto/detectors.proto
@@ -950,6 +950,7 @@ enum DetectorType {
   IPInfo = 939;
   Ip2location = 940;
   Instamojo = 941;
+  AWSSessionKey = 942;
 }
 
 message Result {