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Azure Automation Runbook Deleted

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Azure Automation Runbook Deleted

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Identifies when an Azure Automation runbook is deleted. An adversary may delete an Azure Automation runbook in order to disrupt their target’s automated business operations or to remove a malicious runbook for defense evasion.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-azure*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5m

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
Defense Evasion

Version: 8

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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## Setup

The Azure Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and
    azure.activitylogs.operation_name:"MICROSOFT.AUTOMATION/AUTOMATIONACCOUNTS/RUNBOOKS/DELETE" and
    event.outcome:(Success or success)

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/

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