Crowdstrike Allowlist Removed

Severity: medium
Group by: event.UserId
Log types: Crowdstrike.EventStreams
Source: github.com/panther-labs/panther-analysis

A user deleted an allowlist

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Impact	`T1531` Account Access Removal

Rule body yaml

AnalysisType: rule
Filename: crowdstrike_allowlist_removed.py
RuleID: "Crowdstrike.AllowlistRemoved"
DisplayName: "Crowdstrike Allowlist Removed"
Enabled: true
LogTypes:
  - Crowdstrike.EventStreams
Severity: Medium
Reports:
  MITRE ATT&CK:
    - TA0040:T1531 # Account Access removal
Description: A user deleted an allowlist
DedupPeriodMinutes: 60
Threshold: 1
Runbook: Confirm if the deleted allowlist is needed.
Tests:
  - Name: Enabled Allow List Deleted
    ExpectedResult: true
    Log:
      {
        "event": {
          "AuditKeyValues": [
            {
              "Key": "cidrs",
              "ValueString": "[0.0.0.0/8]"
            },
            {
              "Key": "contexts",
              "ValueString": "[API]"
            },
            {
              "Key": "active",
              "ValueString": "true"
            },
            {
              "Key": "allowlist_group_id",
              "ValueString": "782f842e-98dd-4ee7-9793-33abf8647656"
            },
            {
              "Key": "group_name",
              "ValueString": "my_allow_list"
            },
            {
              "Key": "description",
              "ValueString": ""
            }
          ],
          "OperationName": "DeleteAllowlistGroup",
          "ServiceName": "Crowdstrike Allowlist Management",
          "Success": true,
          "UTCTimestamp": "2024-07-26 19:43:35.000000000",
          "UserId": "wormtongue@isengard.org",
          "UserIp": "1.2.3.4"
        },
        "metadata": {
          "customerIDString": "fake_customer_id",
          "eventCreationTime": "2024-07-26 19:43:35.082000000",
          "eventType": "AuthActivityAuditEvent",
          "offset": 366125,
          "version": "1.0"
        }
      }
  - Name: Disabled Allow List Deleted
    ExpectedResult: true
    Log:
      {
        "event": {
          "AuditKeyValues": [
            {
              "Key": "cidrs",
              "ValueString": "[0.0.0.0/8]"
            },
            {
              "Key": "contexts",
              "ValueString": "[API]"
            },
            {
              "Key": "active",
              "ValueString": "false"
            },
            {
              "Key": "allowlist_group_id",
              "ValueString": "782f842e-98dd-4ee7-9793-33abf8647656"
            },
            {
              "Key": "group_name",
              "ValueString": "my_allow_list"
            },
            {
              "Key": "description",
              "ValueString": ""
            }
          ],
          "OperationName": "DeleteAllowlistGroup",
          "ServiceName": "Crowdstrike Allowlist Management",
          "Success": true,
          "UTCTimestamp": "2024-07-26 19:43:35.000000000",
          "UserId": "wormtongue@isengard.org",
          "UserIp": "1.2.3.4"
        },
        "metadata": {
          "customerIDString": "fake_customer_id",
          "eventCreationTime": "2024-07-26 19:43:35.082000000",
          "eventType": "AuthActivityAuditEvent",
          "offset": 366125,
          "version": "1.0"
        }
      }
  - Name: Allowlist Disabled
    ExpectedResult: true
    Log:
      {
        "event": {
          "AuditKeyValues": [
            {
              "Key": "old_active",
              "ValueString": "true"
            },
            {
              "Key": "group_name",
              "ValueString": "my_allow_list"
            },
            {
              "Key": "old_group_name",
              "ValueString": "b"
            },
            {
              "Key": "cidrs",
              "ValueString": "[1.2.3.4/8]"
            },
            {
              "Key": "contexts",
              "ValueString": "[API UI]"
            },
            {
              "Key": "active",
              "ValueString": "false"
            },
            {
              "Key": "old_allowlist_group_id",
              "ValueString": "24821376-7e77-431e-9469-74846978fe64"
            },
            {
              "Key": "old_description",
              "ValueString": ""
            },
            {
              "Key": "old_cidrs",
              "ValueString": "[1.2.3.4/8]"
            },
            {
              "Key": "allowlist_group_id",
              "ValueString": "24821376-7e77-431e-9469-74846978fe64"
            },
            {
              "Key": "description",
              "ValueString": ""
            },
            {
              "Key": "old_contexts",
              "ValueString": "[API UI]"
            }
          ],
          "OperationName": "UpdateAllowlistGroup",
          "ServiceName": "Crowdstrike Allowlist Management",
          "Success": true,
          "UTCTimestamp": "2024-07-26 19:52:14.000000000",
          "UserId": "wormtongue@isengard.org",
          "UserIp": "1.2.3.4"
        },
        "metadata": {
          "customerIDString": "fake_customer_id",
          "eventCreationTime": "2024-07-26 19:52:14.438000000",
          "eventType": "AuthActivityAuditEvent",
          "offset": 366171,
          "version": "1.0"
        }
      }
  - Name: Unrelated Event
    ExpectedResult: false
    Log:
      {
        "metadata": {
          "customerIDString": "face_customer_id",
          "offset": 1238741,
          "eventType": "AuthActivityAuditEvent",
          "eventCreationTime": "2024-07-22 15:50:16.923000000",
          "version": "1.0"
        },
        "event": {
          "UserId": "bilbo.baggins@hobbiton.co",
          "UserIp": "1.1.1.1",
          "OperationName": "createUser",
          "ServiceName": "CrowdStrike Authentication",
          "Success": true,
          "UTCTimestamp": "2024-07-22 15:50:16.923000000",
          "AuditKeyValues": [
            {
              "Key": "target_name",
              "ValueString": "frodo.baggins@hobbiton.co"
            }
          ]
        }
      }

Detection logic

Condition

event.OperationName eq "DeleteAllowlistGroup" or event.OperationName eq "UpdateAllowlistGroup"

This rule also runs imperative logic the parser cannot express as a filter; the conditions above are the structured part it could extract.

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

Field	Kind	Values
`event.OperationName`	eq	`DeleteAllowlistGroup` `UpdateAllowlistGroup`

Output fields

Fields the rule emits when it matches. Chronicle authors list these in the outcome block; they appear on the detection and $risk_score drives alerting. Sentinel / Defender XDR rules build them up through project / summarize / extend stages. Sentinel maps these into alert fields via entityMappings and customDetails; Defender XDR custom detections surface them as alert fields directly.

Field	Source
`UserId`	`event.UserId`

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