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# Azure Privilege Escalation Using an Application

### Synopsis

| Field                | Value                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Activation Period    | 14 Days                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Training Period      | 30 Days                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Test Period          | 5 Hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Deduplication Period | 1 Day                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Required Data        | <p>Requires all of the following:<br>AzureAD Audit Log<br>Microsoft Graph Logs<br>Office 365 Audit<br>Okta<br>Palo Alto Networks Global Protect OR Third-Party VPNs<br>XDR Agent<br>XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)</p> |
| Detection Modules    | Identity Threat Module                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ATT\&CK Tactic       | Privilege Escalation (TA0004)                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ATT\&CK Technique    | Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism (T1548)                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 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.


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