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# Azure service principal assigned app role

### Synopsis

| Field                | Value                         |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| Activation Period    | 14 Days                       |
| Training Period      | 30 Days                       |
| Test Period          | N/A (single event)            |
| Deduplication Period | 1 Day                         |
| Required Data        | AzureAD Audit Log             |
| Detection Modules    | Identity Threat Module        |
| ATT\&CK Tactic       | Privilege Escalation (TA0004) |
| ATT\&CK Technique    | Valid Accounts (T1078)        |
| Severity             | Informational                 |

### Description

An identity assigned an app role (permissions) to a service principal.

### Attacker's Goals

* An attacker may add roles to service principals that will allow them to access sensitive information and perform other actions.

### Investigative actions

* Check if the added service principle is new to the organization.
* Check whether the account that added the app role is supposed to perform such actions.
* Check for possible logins and actions from the service principle with the role.
* Follow further actions done by the application and the assigner.


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