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Anomalous Entra High-Privilege Role Modification

Adversaries may manipulate accounts to maintain access to victim systems. These actions include adding new accounts to high privilleged groups. Dragonfly 2.0, for example, added newly created accounts to the…

Description

Adversaries may manipulate accounts to maintain access to victim systems. These actions include adding new accounts to high privilleged groups. Dragonfly 2.0, for example, added newly created accounts to the administrators group to maintain elevated access. The query below generates an output of all high-privilege users performing "Update user" (name change) to priveleged role, or where one or more features of the activitiy deviates from the user, his peers or the tenant profile.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform
ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.

Log source service
auditlogsbehavioranalytics

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