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, SaaS Threat Detection
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

Identity assigned an Azure AD Administrator Role by an Application

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.

Suspicious Azure AD Administrator Role assignment

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.