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 product
- azureactivedirectorybehavioranalytics
- Log source service
- auditlogsbehavioranalytics
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
- 8741deeb-332e-4061-8873-5086040920e3
- Tagged by the source as
- Persistence
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1