sap change documents sensitive role assignment

Severity: critical
Time window: 30m
Match by: principal_user
Author: Google Cloud Security
Source: github.com/chronicle/detection-rules

Detects the assignment of highly privileged SAP roles via Change Documents.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Privilege Escalation	`T1098` Account Manipulation

Rule body

// Copyright 2026 Google LLC. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

rule sap_change_documents_sensitive_role_assignment {

    meta:
        author = "Google Cloud Security"
        description = "Detects the assignment of highly privileged SAP roles via Change Documents."
        severity = "Critical"
        tactic = "TA0004"
        technique = "T1098"

    events:
        $e.metadata.log_type = "SAP_CHANGE_DOCUMENT"
        $e.target.resource.product_object_id in %sap_sensitive_roles.role

        $principal_user = $e.principal.user.userid


    match:
        $principal_user over 30m

    outcome:
        $target_user = array_distinct($e.target.resource.product_object_id)
        $tcode = array_distinct($e.target.application)
        $tabname = array_distinct($e.target.resource.attribute.labels["TABNAME"])
        $sensitive_role_assigned = array_distinct($e.target.resource.attribute.labels["TABKEY"])

    condition:
        $e

}

YARA-L rule structure

Condition

Fires when at least one $e event in the 30m window.

Events

`$e`

metadata.log_type = "SAP_CHANGE_DOCUMENT"
target.resource.product_object_id in "%sap_sensitive_roles.role"

Match and correlation

Match key: $principal_user
Within: 30m

Outcome

Outcome variables add context to a detection. When the rule generates an alert, $risk_score is displayed with it.

Field	Expression
`target_user`	`array_distinct($e.target.resource.product_object_id)`
`tcode`	`array_distinct($e.target.application)`
`tabname`	`array_distinct($e.target.resource.attribute.labels["TABNAME"])`
`sensitive_role_assigned`	`array_distinct($e.target.resource.attribute.labels["TABKEY"])`