Synopsis
Activation Period |
14 Days |
Training Period |
30 Days |
Test Period |
5 Hours |
Deduplication Period |
1 Day |
Required Data |
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Detection Modules |
Identity Threat Module |
Detector Tags |
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ATT&CK Tactic |
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ATT&CK Technique |
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Severity |
Medium |
Description
An Azure application was observed assigning an Azure administrator role to a user. This might indicate a privilege escalation attempt.
Attacker's Goals
- An attacker may add additional roles or permissions to an attacker controlled cloud account to maintain persistent access to a tenant.
Investigative actions
- Check if the affected account is new to the organization.
- Check whether the application that added the account to the role is permitted to perform such actions.
- Check what can be affected by the assigned role
- Follow further actions done by the account that was added to the role.