Pathlock TDnR - User-Role Assignment Changes

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

Detects changes to user-to-role assignments in SAP (SU01 roles tab), forwarded by Pathlock Threat Detection and Response. Unauthorized role assignments are the primary mechanism for granting and revoking SAP access, and unexpected changes may indicate privilege escalation, account backdooring, or unauthorized access provisioning.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Persistence	`T1098` Account Manipulation
Privilege Escalation	`T1098` Account Manipulation `T1548` Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism

Rule body

id: 2a3b4c5d-6e7f-4a0b-8c1d-2e3f4a5b6c76
name: Pathlock TDnR - User-Role Assignment Changes
kind: Scheduled
description: >-
  Detects changes to user-to-role assignments in SAP (SU01 roles tab), forwarded by Pathlock
  Threat Detection and Response. Unauthorized role assignments are the primary mechanism for
  granting and revoking SAP access, and unexpected changes may indicate privilege escalation,
  account backdooring, or unauthorized access provisioning.
severity: High
status: Available
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: Pathlock_TDnR
    dataTypes:
      - Pathlock_TDnR_CL
queryFrequency: 1h
queryPeriod: 1h
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
tactics:
  - PrivilegeEscalation
  - Persistence
relevantTechniques:
  - T1548
  - T1098
query: |
  Pathlock_TDnR_CL
  | where DataSource == "USER_ROLES"
  | 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 == "USER_ROLES"

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	`USER_ROLES`	`field:"DataSource" kind:eq value:"USER_ROLES"`

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`