Account Manipulation: Additional Email Delegate Permissions T1098.002

Tactics: Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may grant additional permission levels to maintain persistent access to an adversary-controlled email account.

Events covered

2 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 8 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (20 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
sourcetype6eq 6o365:management:activity, azure:monitor:aad
Operation5eq 4, in 1Add-MailboxFolderPermission, Add-MailboxPermission, AddFolderPermissions, ModifyFolderPermissions, New-ManagementRoleAssignment
Workload5eq 5Exchange, AzureActiveDirectory
"{}.RequiredAppPermissions{}.EntitlementId"2eq 2dc890d15-9560-4a4c-9b7f-a736ec74ec40
"{}.ResourceAppId"2eq 200000002-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000
AccessRights1eq 1ChangeOwner, ChangePermission, FullAccess
EventType1eq 1Add-MailboxPermission, Add-RecipientPermission, Set-Mailbox
Provider_Name1eq 1Exchange
Role1eq 1ApplicationImpersonation
category1eq 1AuditLogs
data_stream.dataset1eq 1o365.audit
event.outcome1eq 1success
event.type1eq 1start
isReadRole1eq 1true
o365.audit.Parameters.AccessRights1eq 1FullAccess, SendAs

Top indicator values (36 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
sourcetypeeq
o365:management:activity
580
Workloadeq
Exchange
420
Workloadeq
AzureActiveDirectory
131
"{}.RequiredAppPermissions{}.EntitlementId"eq
dc890d15-9560-4a4c-9b7f-a736ec74ec40
22
"{}.ResourceAppId"eq
00000002-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000
22
AccessRightseq
ChangeOwner
1
AccessRightseq
ChangePermission
1
AccessRightseq
FullAccess
1
EventTypeeq
Add-MailboxPermission
1
EventTypeeq
Add-RecipientPermission
1
EventTypeeq
Set-Mailbox
1
Operationeq
Add-MailboxPermission
12
Operationeq
AddFolderPermissions
1
Operationeq
ModifyFolderPermissions
12
Operationeq
New-ManagementRoleAssignment
1
Operationeq
Update application.
13
Operationin
Add-MailboxFolderPermission
13
Operationin
Set-MailboxFolderPermission
1
Provider_Nameeq
Exchange
119
Roleeq
ApplicationImpersonation
1
categoryeq
AuditLogs
16
data_stream.dataseteq
o365.audit
145
event.outcomeeq
success
1251
event.typeeq
start
1606
isReadRoleeq
true
12
o365.audit.Parameters.AccessRightseq
FullAccess
1
o365.audit.Parameters.AccessRightseq
SendAs
1
objectne
Calendar
1
objectne
Contacts
1
objectne
PersonMetadata
1

Exclusions (5 distinct)

Field/operator/value combinations excluded by rules under this technique (top-level not() clauses), sorted by how many rules exclude each. These are the false-positive paths the community has learned to filter out. A new rule that ignores the high-count entries here will likely fire on the same noisy paths. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that exclude it.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
m365::UserTypein
3
1
m365::UserTypein
4
1
user.idin
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (Microsoft.Exchange.AdminApi.NetCore)
1
user.idin
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (Microsoft.Exchange.ServiceHost)
1
user.idin
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (w3wp)
1

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Elastic 2 rules

Splunk 6 rules