MediumSigmaHQ Elastic +2

Group Policy Abuse for Privilege Addition

Detects the first occurrence of a modification to Group Policy Object Attributes to add privileges to user accounts or use them to add users as local admins.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source service: security

Known benign triggers

Users allowed to perform these modifications (user found in field SubjectUserName)

References

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Reference	Class	Cited by
www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/group-policy-abuse-for-privilege-addition.html#_setup_275	Product documentation	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Group Policy Abuse for Privilege Addition

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules