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Azure Subscription Permission Elevation Via ActivityLogs

Detects when a user has been elevated to manage all Azure Subscriptions. This change should be investigated immediately if it isn't planned. This setting could allow an attacker access to Azure subscriptions in your environment.

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Austin SongerCreated Fri Nov 26Updated Tue Aug 2309438caa-07b1-4870-8405-1dbafe3dad95cloud

Log Source

Azureactivitylogs

ProductAzure← raw: azure

Serviceactivitylogs← raw: activitylogs

Detection Logic

detection:
    selection:
        operationName: MICROSOFT.AUTHORIZATION/ELEVATEACCESS/ACTION
    condition: selection

False Positives

If this was approved by System Administrator.

References

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learn.microsoft.com

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactics

TA0004 · Privilege Escalation TA0003 · Persistence TA0005 · Defense Evasion TA0001 · Initial Access

Sub-techniques

T1078.004 · Cloud Accounts

Rule Metadata

Rule ID

09438caa-07b1-4870-8405-1dbafe3dad95

Status

test

Level

high

Type

Detection

Created

Fri Nov 26

Modified

Tue Aug 23

Author

Austin Songer

Path

rules/cloud/azure/activity_logs/azure_subscription_permissions_elevation_via_activitylogs.yml

Raw Tags

attack.privilege-escalationattack.persistenceattack.defense-evasionattack.initial-accessattack.t1078.004

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