Suspicious Service Principal creation activity
This alert will detect creation of an SPN, permissions granted, credentials created, activity and deletion of the SPN in a time frame (default 10 minutes)
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- azureactivedirectory
- Log source service
- aadserviceprincipalsigninlogsauditlogs
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 6852d9da-8015-4b95-8ecf-d9572ee0395d
- Tagged by the source as
- CredentialAccessInitialAccessPrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1