Detection rules › Kusto

User added to Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Groups

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

This will alert when a user is added to any of the Privileged Groups. For further information on AuditLogs please see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/reference-audit-activities. For Administrator role permissions in Microsoft Entra ID please see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Telemetry coverage

Rules detecting the same action

These rules filter on the same operation.

Rule body

id: 4d94d4a9-dc96-410a-8dea-4d4d4584188b
name: User added to Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Groups
description: |
  'This will alert when a user is added to any of the Privileged Groups.
  For further information on AuditLogs please see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/reference-audit-activities.
  For Administrator role permissions in Microsoft Entra ID please see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles'
severity: Medium
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: AzureActiveDirectory
    dataTypes:
      - AuditLogs
queryFrequency: 1h
queryPeriod: 1h
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
status: Available
tactics:
  - Persistence
  - PrivilegeEscalation
relevantTechniques:
  - T1098
  - T1078
tags:
  - DEV-0537
query: |
  let OperationList = dynamic(["Add member to role","Add eligible member to role"]);
  let PrivilegedGroups = dynamic(["UserAccountAdmins","PrivilegedRoleAdmins","TenantAdmins","PrivilegedAuthenticationAdmins"]);
  AuditLogs
  | where Category =~ "RoleManagement"
  | where OperationName in~ (OperationList)
  | mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on 
    (
        where TargetResource.type =~ "User"
        | extend TargetUserPrincipalName = tostring(TargetResource.userPrincipalName),
                 modProps = TargetResource.modifiedProperties
    )
  | mv-apply Property = modProps on 
    (
        where Property.displayName =~ "Role.WellKnownObjectName"
        | extend DisplayName = trim('"',tostring(Property.displayName)),
                 GroupName = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
    )
  | extend InitiatingAppId = InitiatedBy.app.appId
  | extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
  | extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
  | extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalName)
  | extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
  | extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
  | extend InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
  | extend InitiatingUserRoles = InitiatedBy.user.roles
  | where GroupName in~ (PrivilegedGroups)
  // If you don't want to alert for operations from PIM, remove below filtering for MS-PIM.
  //| where InitiatingAppName != "MS-PIM" and InitiatingAppName != "MS-PIM-Fairfax"
  | project TimeGenerated, AADOperationType, Category, OperationName, AADTenantId, InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingAppId, InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId, InitiatingIpAddress, DisplayName, GroupName, InitiatingUserRoles, TargetUserPrincipalName
  | extend AccountName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])
  | extend TargetName = tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), TargetUPNSuffix = tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: FullName
        columnName: InitiatingUserPrincipalName   
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: AccountName      
      - identifier: UPNSuffix
        columnName: AccountUPNSuffix
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: FullName
        columnName: TargetUserPrincipalName   
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: TargetName      
      - identifier: UPNSuffix
        columnName: TargetUPNSuffix
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: AadUserId
        columnName: InitiatingAadUserId
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: AadUserId
        columnName: InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: InitiatingIpAddress
version: 1.0.7
kind: Scheduled

Stages and Predicates

Parameters

let OperationList = dynamic(["Add member to role","Add eligible member to role"]);
let PrivilegedGroups = dynamic(["UserAccountAdmins","PrivilegedRoleAdmins","TenantAdmins","PrivilegedAuthenticationAdmins"]);

Stage 1: source

AuditLogs

Stage 2: where

| where Category =~ "RoleManagement"

Stage 3: where

| where OperationName in~ (OperationList)

Stage 4: kusto:mv-apply

| mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on 
  (
      where TargetResource.type =~ "User"
      | extend TargetUserPrincipalName = tostring(TargetResource.userPrincipalName),
               modProps = TargetResource.modifiedProperties
  )

Stage 5: kusto:mv-apply

| mv-apply Property = modProps on 
  (
      where Property.displayName =~ "Role.WellKnownObjectName"
      | extend DisplayName = trim('"',tostring(Property.displayName)),
               GroupName = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
  )

Stage 6: extend (8 consecutive steps)

| extend InitiatingAppId = InitiatedBy.app.appId
| extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
| extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
| extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalName)
| extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| extend InitiatingUserRoles = InitiatedBy.user.roles

Stage 7: where

| where GroupName in~ (PrivilegedGroups)

Stage 8: project

| project TimeGenerated, AADOperationType, Category, OperationName, AADTenantId, InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingAppId, InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId, InitiatingIpAddress, DisplayName, GroupName, InitiatingUserRoles, TargetUserPrincipalName

Stage 9: extend

| extend AccountName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])

Stage 10: extend

| extend TargetName = tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), TargetUPNSuffix = tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
Categoryeq
  • RoleManagement
field:"Category" kind:eq value:"RoleManagement"
GroupNamein
  • PrivilegedAuthenticationAdmins
  • PrivilegedRoleAdmins
  • TenantAdmins
  • UserAccountAdmins
field:"GroupName" kind:in
OperationNamein
  • Add eligible member to role
  • Add member to role
field:"OperationName" kind:in
displayNameeq
  • Role.WellKnownObjectName
field:"displayName" kind:eq value:"Role.WellKnownObjectName"
typeeq
  • User
field:"type" kind:eq value:"User"

Output fields

These fields are emitted when the rule matches.

FieldSource
AADOperationTypeproject
AADTenantIdproject
Categoryproject
DisplayNameproject
GroupNameproject
InitiatingAadUserIdproject
InitiatingAppIdproject
InitiatingAppNameproject
InitiatingAppServicePrincipalIdproject
InitiatingAppServicePrincipalNameproject
InitiatingIpAddressproject
InitiatingUserPrincipalNameproject
InitiatingUserRolesproject
OperationNameproject
TargetUserPrincipalNameproject
TimeGeneratedproject
AccountNameextend
AccountUPNSuffixextend
TargetNameextend
TargetUPNSuffixextend