Pathlock TDnR - HR User Master Change Requests

Status: available
Severity: medium
Time window: 1h
Source: github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel

Detects change requests to the HR user master data in SAP, forwarded by Pathlock Threat Detection and Response. Unauthorized HR data changes may indicate targeted manipulation of employee records, payroll fraud, or exfiltration of sensitive personnel information.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Collection	`T1213` Data from Information Repositories
Impact	`T1565` Data Manipulation

Rule body

id: 2a3b4c5d-6e7f-4a0b-8c1d-2e3f4a5b6c30
name: Pathlock TDnR - HR User Master Change Requests
kind: Scheduled
description: >-
  Detects change requests to the HR user master data in SAP, forwarded by Pathlock Threat Detection
  and Response. Unauthorized HR data changes may indicate targeted manipulation of employee records,
  payroll fraud, or exfiltration of sensitive personnel information.
severity: Medium
status: Available
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: Pathlock_TDnR
    dataTypes:
      - Pathlock_TDnR_CL
queryFrequency: 1h
queryPeriod: 1h
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
tactics:
  - Impact
  - Collection
relevantTechniques:
  - T1565
  - T1213
query: |
  Pathlock_TDnR_CL
  | where DataSource == "HR_PA_CHANGELOG"
  | project TimeGenerated, Sysid, DataSource, Eventid, Instance, Hostname, Bname,
            Tcode, Report, Area, Subid, SrcIp, DestIp, AffectedUser, LogLine,
            MsgType, MsgId, MsgNo, MessageV1, MessageV2, MessageV3, MessageV4, CentralTs
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: Bname
  - entityType: Host
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: HostName
        columnName: Hostname
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: SrcIp
eventGroupingSettings:
  aggregationKind: SingleAlert
incidentConfiguration:
  createIncident: true
  groupingConfiguration:
    enabled: true
    reopenClosedIncident: false
    lookbackDuration: 5h
    matchingMethod: AnyAlert
    groupByEntities: []
    groupByAlertDetails: []
    groupByCustomDetails: []
suppressionDuration: 5h
suppressionEnabled: false
version: 1.0.0

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `source`

Pathlock_TDnR_CL

Stage 2: `where`

| where DataSource == "HR_PA_CHANGELOG"

Stage 3: `project`

| project TimeGenerated, Sysid, DataSource, Eventid, Instance, Hostname, Bname,
          Tcode, Report, Area, Subid, SrcIp, DestIp, AffectedUser, LogLine,
          MsgType, MsgId, MsgNo, MessageV1, MessageV2, MessageV3, MessageV4, CentralTs

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Field	Kind	Values	Search
`DataSource`	eq	`HR_PA_CHANGELOG`	`field:"DataSource" kind:eq value:"HR_PA_CHANGELOG"`

Output fields

These fields are emitted when the rule matches.

Field	Source
`AffectedUser`	`project`
`Area`	`project`
`Bname`	`project`
`CentralTs`	`project`
`DataSource`	`project`
`DestIp`	`project`
`Eventid`	`project`
`Hostname`	`project`
`Instance`	`project`
`LogLine`	`project`
`MessageV1`	`project`
`MessageV2`	`project`
`MessageV3`	`project`
`MessageV4`	`project`
`MsgId`	`project`
`MsgNo`	`project`
`MsgType`	`project`
`Report`	`project`
`SrcIp`	`project`
`Subid`	`project`
`Sysid`	`project`
`Tcode`	`project`
`TimeGenerated`	`project`