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User Added to Privileged Group in Active Directory
editUser Added to Privileged Group in Active Directory
editIdentifies a user being added to a privileged group in Active Directory. Privileged accounts and groups in Active Directory are those to which powerful rights, privileges, and permissions are granted that allow them to perform nearly any action in Active Directory and on domain-joined systems.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Persistence
Version: 2 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0
Rule authors: Elastic, Skoetting
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
editiam where event.action == "added-member-to-group" and group.name : ("Admin*", "Local Administrators", "Domain Admins", "Enterprise Admins", "Backup Admins", "Schema Admins", "DnsAdmins", "Exchange Organization Administrators")
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Create Account
- ID: T1136
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1136/
Rule version history
edit- Version 2 (7.13.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.category:iam and event.action:"added-member-to-group" and group.name:(Administrators or "Local Administrators" or "Domain Admins" or "Enterprise Admins" or "Backup Admins" or "Schema Admins" or "DnsAdmins")
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