Hunt for successful group creation in the Microsoft Graph API

// Copyright 2025 Google LLC. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

rule ms_graph_group_creation_success {

  meta:
    author = "Google Cloud Security"
    description = "Identify a successful group creation. Triggered through the use of GraphRunner's Invoke-SecurityGroupCloner function."
    rule_id = "mr_04b3df2c-470f-4b4d-9382-cdbe0539e5ec"
    rule_name = "Hunt for successful group creation in the Microsoft Graph API"
    assumption = "This detects all web activity associated with the groups endpoint with a response code 201, normal admin actions could trigger as well. Tune using IP address ranges for admins and user agents."
    reference = "https://github.com/dafthack/GraphRunner/blob/main/GraphRunner.ps1"
    type = "Hunt"
    data_source = "MS Graph Activity Logs"
    platform = "Azure"
    severity = "Low"
    priority = "Low"

  events:
    $api.metadata.event_type = "NETWORK_HTTP"
    $api.metadata.product_event_type = "Microsoft Graph Activity"
    $api.target.url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups" nocase
    $api.network.http.method = "POST"
    $api.network.http.response_code = 201
    //Can be tuned for specific User Agent strings being used - by default GraphRunner does not forge the UA for this action
    //$api.network.http.user_agent = /PowerShell/ nocase
    $api.principal.ip = $ip
    $api.network.session_id = $session

  match:
    $ip, $session over 5m

  outcome:
    $risk_score = 35
    $event_count = count_distinct($api.metadata.id)
    $requesting_user_guid = array_distinct($api.principal.user.userid)
    $requesting_ip = array_distinct($api.principal.ip)
    $user_agent = array_distinct($api.network.http.user_agent)
    $location = array_distinct($api.principal.location.name)
    $target_application_id_guid = array_distinct($api.target.resource.product_object_id)
    $session_id = array_distinct($api.network.session_id)
    $target_url = array_distinct($api.target.url)

  condition:
    $api
}