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User Added as Owner for Azure Application

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

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/

Rule version history

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Version 7 (8.4.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 5 (7.13.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 4 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

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

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