User Added as Owner for Azure Application

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Identifies when a user is added as an owner for an Azure application. An adversary may add a user account as an owner for an Azure application in order to grant additional permissions and modify the application’s configuration using another account.

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

Tags:

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

Version: 101 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0

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 application" and event.outcome:(Success or success)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 101 (8.6.0 release)
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Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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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 application" and event.outcome:Success