User Added as Owner for Azure Service Principal

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User Added as Owner for Azure Service Principal

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Identifies when a user is added as an owner for an Azure service principal. The service principal object defines what the application can do in the specific tenant, who can access the application, and what resources the app can access. A service principal object is created when an application is given permission to access resources in a tenant. An adversary may add a user account as an owner for a service principal and use that account in order to define what an application can do in the Azure AD tenant.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-azure*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • Azure
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Configuration Audit

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

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:azure.auditlogs and azure.auditlogs.operation_name:"Add
owner to service principal" and event.outcome:(Success or success)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 7 (8.4.0 release)
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Version 5 (7.13.0 release)
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Version 4 (7.12.0 release)
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Version 3 (7.11.2 release)
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Version 2 (7.11.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:azure.auditlogs and azure.auditlogs.operation_name:"Add
    owner to service principal" and event.outcome:Success