Office Policy Tampering

id: fbd72eb8-087e-466b-bd54-1ca6ea08c6d3
name: Office Policy Tampering
description: |
  'Identifies if any tampering is done to either auditlog, ATP Safelink, SafeAttachment, AntiPhish or Dlp policy. 
  An adversary may use this technique to evade detection or avoid other policy based defenses.
  References: https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/exchange/advanced-threat-protection/remove-antiphishrule?view=exchange-ps.'
severity: Medium
status: Available 
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: Office365
    dataTypes:
      - OfficeActivity (Exchange)
queryFrequency: 1d
queryPeriod: 1d
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
tactics:
  - Persistence
  - DefenseEvasion
relevantTechniques:
  - T1098
  - T1562
query: |
  let opList = OfficeActivity 
  | summarize by Operation
  //| where Operation startswith "Remove-" or Operation startswith "Disable-"
  | where Operation has_any ("Remove", "Disable")
  | where Operation contains "AntiPhish" or Operation contains "SafeAttachment" or Operation contains "SafeLinks" or Operation contains "Dlp" or Operation contains "Audit"
  | summarize make_set(Operation, 500);
  OfficeActivity
  // Only admin or global-admin can disable/remove policy
  | where RecordType =~ "ExchangeAdmin"
  | where UserType in~ ("Admin","DcAdmin")
  // Pass in interesting Operation list
  | where Operation in~ (opList)
  | extend ClientIPOnly = case( 
  ClientIP has ".", tostring(split(ClientIP,":")[0]), 
  ClientIP has "[", tostring(trim_start(@'[[]',tostring(split(ClientIP,"]")[0]))),
  ClientIP
  )  
  | extend Port = case(
  ClientIP has ".", (split(ClientIP,":")[1]),
  ClientIP has "[", tostring(split(ClientIP,"]:")[1]),
  ClientIP
  )
  | summarize StartTimeUtc = min(TimeGenerated), EndTimeUtc = max(TimeGenerated), OperationCount = count() by Operation, UserType, UserId, ClientIP = ClientIPOnly, Port, ResultStatus, Parameters
  | extend AccountName = tostring(split(UserId, "@")[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserId, "@")[1])
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: FullName
        columnName: UserId
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: AccountName
      - identifier: UPNSuffix
        columnName: AccountUPNSuffix
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: ClientIP
version: 2.0.3
kind: Scheduled