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Bulk Changes to Privileged Account Permissions
Description
'Identifies when changes to multiple users permissions are changed at once. Investigate immediately if not a planned change. This setting could enable an attacker access to Azure subscriptions in your environment.
Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-privileged-identity-management'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.7
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 2h
- Query period
- 2h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let AdminRecords = AuditLogs
| where Category =~ "RoleManagement"
| where ActivityDisplayName has_any ("Add eligible member to role", "Add member to role")
| mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on
(
where TargetResource.type =~ "User"
| extend TargetUserPrincipalName = tostring(TargetResource.userPrincipalName),
props = TargetResource.modifiedProperties
)
| mv-apply Property = props on
(
where Property.displayName =~ "Role.DisplayName"
| extend RoleName = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
)
| where RoleName contains "Admin";
AdminRecords
| summarize dcount(TargetUserPrincipalName) by bin(TimeGenerated, 1h)
| where dcount_TargetUserPrincipalName > 9
| join kind=rightsemi (
AdminRecords
| extend TimeWindow = bin(TimeGenerated, 1h)
) on $left.TimeGenerated == $right.TimeWindow
| extend InitiatedByUser = iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName), tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName), "")
| extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
| extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
| extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| extend TargetName = tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), TargetUPNSuffix = tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])
| extend InitiatingAccountName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0]), InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1])
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
218f60de-c269-457a-b882-9966632b9dc6
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC