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Authentication Methods Changed for Privileged Account

Description

'Identifies authentication methods being changed for a privileged account. This could be an indication of an attacker adding an auth method to the account so they can have continued access. Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-privileged-accounts#things-to-monitor-1'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.1.1
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
2h
Query period
14d
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 queryperiod = 14d;
let queryfrequency = 2h;
let security_info_actions = dynamic(["User registered security info", "User changed default security info", "User deleted security info", "Admin updated security info", "User reviewed security info", "Admin deleted security info", "Admin registered security info"]);
let VIPUsers = (
    IdentityInfo
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(queryperiod)
    | mv-expand AssignedRoles
    | where AssignedRoles contains 'Admin'
    | summarize by AccountUPN);
AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(queryfrequency)
| where Category =~ "UserManagement"
| where ActivityDisplayName in (security_info_actions)
| 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))
| mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on 
  (
      where TargetResource.type =~ "User"
      | extend TargetUserPrincipalName = tostring(TargetResource.userPrincipalName)
  )
| where TargetUserPrincipalName in~ (VIPUsers)
// Uncomment the line below if you are experiencing high volumes of Target entities. If this is uncommented, the Target column will not be mapped to an entity.
//| summarize Start=min(TimeGenerated), End=max(TimeGenerated), Actions = make_set(ResultReason, MaxSize=8), Targets=make_set(Target, MaxSize=256) by Initiator, IP, Result
// Comment out this line below, if line above is used.
| summarize Start=min(TimeGenerated), End=max(TimeGenerated), Actions = make_set(ResultReason, MaxSize=8) by InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId, 
InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingIpAddress, TargetUserPrincipalName, Result
| extend InitiatingAccountName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0]), InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1]), 
TargetName = iff(tostring(TargetUserPrincipalName) has "[", "", tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0])), TargetUPNSuffix = iff(tostring(TargetUserPrincipalName) has "[", "", tostring(split(TargetUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0]))

Declared entities

AccountIP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
694c91ee-d606-4ba9-928e-405a2dd0ff0f
Additional source files 3Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Analytic Rules/AuthenticationMethodsChangedforPrivilegedAccount.yamlsource ↗Detections/MultipleDataSources/AuthenticationMethodsChangedforPrivilegedAccount.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Data/Solution_AAD.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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