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This detection identifies when critical SQL Server configuration options are modified, including "Ad Hoc Distributed Queries", "external scripts enabled", "Ole Automation Procedures", "clr enabled", and "clr strict security". These features can be abused by attackers for various malicious purposes - Ad Hoc Distributed Queries enables Active Directory reconnaissance through ADSI provider, external scripts and Ole Automation allow execution of arbitrary code, and CLR features can be used to run custom assemblies. Enabling these features could indicate attempts to gain code execution or perform reconnaissance through SQL Server.
This detection helps hunt for changes to SQL Server configuration options that could indicate malicious activity. It monitors for modifications to any SQL Server configuration settings, allowing analysts to identify potentially suspicious changes that may be part of an attack, such as enabling dangerous features or modifying security-relevant settings.
This detection flags any changes happening on the Connect Sync Application in Entra ID. Since this is a very interesting account for attackers to abuse when moving laterally between AD DS and Entra ID, any change to the account should be investigated. We try to exclude legitimate certificate renewal processes, and a new account onboarding in the detection rule.
Detects when an application or service principal performs sensitive configuration changes, likely via the Microsoft Graph API. This can indicate an attacker using a compromised or malicious application for persistence (adding credentials), privilege escalation (adding owners), or defense evasion (modifying Conditional Access policies). This aligns with the "Consent & Compromise" research where attackers abuse application permissions.
Detects unauthorized modifications to the Palo Alto Networks firewall configuration, potentially indicating malicious activity or security policy violations. These changes can be leveraged to evade detection, facilitate data exfiltration, or disrupt network defenses, ultimately compromising the integrity and security of the environment.
This detection identifies changes to the syslog loghost configuration on an ESXi host, which may indicate an attempt to disrupt log forwarding and evade detection.
This detection identifies changes to the syslog configuration on an ESXi host using `esxcli`, which may indicate an attempt to disrupt log collection and evade detection. Adversaries may modify logging configurations to hinder forensic analysis and remain undetected.
This detection identifies when Microsoft Copilot Studio agents are created in your organization's tenant. This activity is significant as the default behavior in Copilot agent creation is to configure a new service principal with cloud app administrator role.
Copilot agents can be found in the Microsoft Admin Portal https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/copilot/agents
Copilot agents can be found in the Microsoft Admin Portal https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/copilot/agents
This detection rule identifies when Microsoft Copilot Studio agent properties are modified in your organization's tenant. This activity is significant as the default behavior in Copilot agent creation is to configure a new service principal with cloud app administrator role.
Copilot agents can be found in the Microsoft Admin Portal https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/copilot/agents
Copilot agents can be found in the Microsoft Admin Portal https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/copilot/agents
The following analytic detects when a user disables Dependabot security features within a GitHub repository. Dependabot helps automatically identify and fix security vulnerabilities in dependencies. The detection monitors GitHub Enterprise logs for configuration changes that disable Dependabot functionality. This behavior could indicate an attacker attempting to prevent the automatic detection of vulnerable dependencies, which would allow them to exploit known vulnerabilities that would otherwise be patched. For a SOC, identifying the disabling of security features like Dependabot is critical as it may be a precursor to supply chain attacks where attackers exploit vulnerable dependencies. The impact could be severe if vulnerabilities remain unpatched, potentially leading to code execution, data theft, or other compromises through the software supply chain.
'This query helps detect new Microsoft Entra ID sign in from a new location correlating with Office Activity data highlighting cases where user mails are being forwarded and shows if it is being forwarded to external domains as well.'
'This hunting query identifies updates to the RequiredResourceAccess property of an OAuth application.
This property specifies resources that an application requires access to and the set of OAuth permission scopes and application roles that it needs under each of those resources.
This pre-configuration of required resource access drives the consent experience. The resourceAccess property of the requiredResourceAccess type is a collection of ResourceAccess.
A threat actor might update this property before granting permissions to an application.
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This property specifies resources that an application requires access to and the set of OAuth permission scopes and application roles that it needs under each of those resources.
This pre-configuration of required resource access drives the consent experience. The resourceAccess property of the requiredResourceAccess type is a collection of ResourceAccess.
A threat actor might update this property before granting permissions to an application.
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'Detects a Service Principal being assigned an app role that has sensitive access such as Mail.Read.
A threat actor who compromises a Service Principal may assign it an app role to allow it to access sensitive data, or to perform other actions.
Ensure that any assignment to a Service Principal is valid and appropriate.
Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-applications#application-granted-highly-privileged-permissions'
A threat actor who compromises a Service Principal may assign it an app role to allow it to access sensitive data, or to perform other actions.
Ensure that any assignment to a Service Principal is valid and appropriate.
Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-applications#application-granted-highly-privileged-permissions'
This query helps hunting for Inbox rule changes which forward-redirect email
The query looks for users or service principals that attached an uncommon credential type to application.
As part of the Nobelium campaign, the attacker added credentials to already existing applications and used the application permissions to extract users' mails.
See How to: Use the portal to create an Microsoft Entra ID application and service principal that can access resources.
Reference - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
As part of the Nobelium campaign, the attacker added credentials to already existing applications and used the application permissions to extract users' mails.
See How to: Use the portal to create an Microsoft Entra ID application and service principal that can access resources.
Reference - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
This query will find applications that have been granted Mail.Read or Mail.ReadWrite permissions in which the corresponding user recently consented to. It can help identify applications that have been abused to gain access to user email.
The actor, Nobelium, was observed modifying existing tenant application permissions to allow them to read user email through the Microsoft Graph API. See Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks.
This query is insprired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/
https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Detections/AuditLogs/MailPermissionsAddedToApplication.yaml
The actor, Nobelium, was observed modifying existing tenant application permissions to allow them to read user email through the Microsoft Graph API. See Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks.
This query is insprired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/
https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Detections/AuditLogs/MailPermissionsAddedToApplication.yaml
'Compares the current day to last 14 days of audits to identify new audit activities. Useful for tracking malicious activity related to user/group additions/removals by Azure Apps and automated approvals.'
This query will find when a new credential is added to an application or service principal.
The Nobelium activity group was able to gain sufficient access to add credentials to existing applications with mail read permissions. They used that access to exfiltrate email.
See Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks for more on the Nobelium campaign (formerly known as Solorigate).
Additional information on OAuth Credential Grants can be found in RFC 6749 Section 4.4 or Microsoft Entra ID audit activity reference.
For further information on AuditLogs please see Microsoft Entra ID audit activity reference.
This query was inspired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-oauth2-client-creds-grant-flow
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/reference-audit-activities
https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Detections/AuditLogs/NewAppOrServicePrincipalCredential.yaml
The Nobelium activity group was able to gain sufficient access to add credentials to existing applications with mail read permissions. They used that access to exfiltrate email.
See Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks for more on the Nobelium campaign (formerly known as Solorigate).
Additional information on OAuth Credential Grants can be found in RFC 6749 Section 4.4 or Microsoft Entra ID audit activity reference.
For further information on AuditLogs please see Microsoft Entra ID audit activity reference.
This query was inspired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-oauth2-client-creds-grant-flow
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/reference-audit-activities
https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Detections/AuditLogs/NewAppOrServicePrincipalCredential.yaml
Credentials were added to an application by UserA, after the application was granted admin consent rights by UserB
The Nobelium activity group has been observed adding credentials (x509 keys or password credentials) for one or more legitimate OAuth Applications or Service Principals, usually with existing Mail.Read or Mail.ReadWrite permissions, which grants the ability to read mail content from Exchange Online via Microsoft Graph or Outlook REST. Examples include mail archiving applications.
See Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks for more on the Nobelium campaign (formerly known as Solorigate).
See Grant tenant-wide admin consent to an application for how to add admin consent to an application.
More Nobelium-related queries can be found listed under the See also section of this document.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/grant-admin-consent
The Nobelium activity group has been observed adding credentials (x509 keys or password credentials) for one or more legitimate OAuth Applications or Service Principals, usually with existing Mail.Read or Mail.ReadWrite permissions, which grants the ability to read mail content from Exchange Online via Microsoft Graph or Outlook REST. Examples include mail archiving applications.
See Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks for more on the Nobelium campaign (formerly known as Solorigate).
See Grant tenant-wide admin consent to an application for how to add admin consent to an application.
More Nobelium-related queries can be found listed under the See also section of this document.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/grant-admin-consent
'Detects changes to an applications sign out URL.
Look for any modifications to a sign out URL. Blank entries or entries to non-existent locations would stop a user from terminating a session.
Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-applications#logout-url-modified-or-removed'
Look for any modifications to a sign out URL. Blank entries or entries to non-existent locations would stop a user from terminating a session.
Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-applications#logout-url-modified-or-removed'
'Detects changes to the ownership of an appplicaiton.
Monitor these changes to make sure that they were authorized.
Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/entra/architecture/security-operations-applications#new-owner'
Monitor these changes to make sure that they were authorized.
Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/entra/architecture/security-operations-applications#new-owner'
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