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# Identity assigned an Azure AD Administrator 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       | Persistence (TA0003)                                     |
| ATT\&CK Technique    | Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Roles (T1098.003) |
| Severity             | Informational                                            |

### Description

An identity was assigned an Azure AD Administrator role.

### 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 added account is new to the organization.
* Check whether the account 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.

### Variations

<details>

<summary>Identity assigned an Azure AD Administrator Role by an Application</summary>

**Synopsis**

| Field             | Value                                                    |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic    | Persistence (TA0003)                                     |
| ATT\&CK Technique | Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Roles (T1098.003) |
| Severity          | Medium                                                   |

**Description**

An identity was assigned an Azure AD Administrator role by an application.

**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 added account is new to the organization.
* Check whether the account 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.

</details>

<details>

<summary>Suspicious Azure AD Administrator Role assignment</summary>

**Synopsis**

| Field             | Value                                                    |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic    | Persistence (TA0003)                                     |
| ATT\&CK Technique | Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Roles (T1098.003) |
| Severity          | Low                                                      |

**Description**

An identity was assigned an Azure AD Administrator role.

**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 added account is new to the organization.
* Check whether the account 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.

</details>


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