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Azure Event Hub Authorization Rule Created or Updated

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Azure Event Hub Authorization Rule Created or Updated

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Identifies when an Event Hub Authorization Rule is created or updated in Azure. An authorization rule is associated with specific rights, and carries a pair of cryptographic keys. When you create an Event Hubs namespace, a policy rule named RootManageSharedAccessKey is created for the namespace. This has manage permissions for the entire namespace and it’s recommended that you treat this rule like an administrative root account and don’t use it in your application.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-azure*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-25m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/authorize-access-shared-access-signature

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
Azure
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Log Auditing

Version: 7 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Authorization rule additions or modifications may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the username, hostname, and/or resource name should be making changes in your environment. Authorization rule additions or modifications from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and azure.activitylogs.operation_name
:"MICROSOFT.EVENTHUB/NAMESPACES/AUTHORIZATIONRULES/WRITE" and
event.outcome:(Success or success)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Collection
- ID: TA0009
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/
Technique:
- Name: Data from Cloud Storage Object
- ID: T1530
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1530/
Tactic:
- Name: Exfiltration
- ID: TA0010
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0010/
Technique:
- Name: Transfer Data to Cloud Account
- ID: T1537
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1537/

Rule version history

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Version 7 (8.4.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 5 (7.13.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 4 (7.12.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and azure.activitylogs.operation_name
:MICROSOFT.EVENTHUB/NAMESPACES/AUTHORIZATIONRULES/WRITE and
event.outcome:(Success or success)

Version 3 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.11.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and azure.activitylogs.operation_name
:MICROSOFT.EVENTHUB/NAMESPACES/AUTHORIZATIONRULES/WRITE and
event.outcome:Success

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