Description
'Identifies when a new eligible or active privileged role is assigned to a user. Does not alert on PIM activations. Any account eligible for a role is now being given privileged access. If the assignment is unexpected or into a role that isn't the responsibility of the account holder, investigate.
Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-privileged-accounts#things-to-monitor-1'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.2
- 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.
AuditLogs
| where Category =~ "RoleManagement"
| where AADOperationType in ("Assign", "AssignEligibleRole", "CreateRequestGrantedRole", "CreateRequestPermanentEligibleRole", "CreateRequestPermanentGrantedRole")
| where ActivityDisplayName has_any ("Add eligible member to role", "Add member to role")
| mv-apply TargetResourceSubject = TargetResources on
(
where TargetResourceSubject.type in~ ("User", "ServicePrincipal")
| extend Target = iff(TargetResourceSubject.type =~ "ServicePrincipal", tostring(TargetResourceSubject.displayName), tostring(TargetResourceSubject.userPrincipalName)),
subjectProps = TargetResourceSubject.modifiedProperties
)
| mv-apply TargetResourceRole = TargetResources on
(
// mimic modifiedProperties so we can use the same logic to get the role name regardless of where it comes from
where TargetResourceRole.type in~ ("Role")
| extend roleProps = pack_array(bag_pack("displayName","Role.DisplayName", "newValue", TargetResourceRole.displayName))
)
| mv-apply Property = iff(array_length(subjectProps) > 0, subjectProps, roleProps) on
(
where Property.displayName =~ "Role.DisplayName"
| extend RoleName = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
)
| where RoleName contains "Admin"
| 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 Initiator = iif(isnotempty(InitiatingAppName), InitiatingAppName, InitiatingUserPrincipalName)
// Comment below to alert for PIM activations
| where Initiator != "MS-PIM" and Initiator != "MS-PIM-Fairfax"
| summarize by bin(TimeGenerated, 1h), OperationName, RoleName, Target, Initiator, InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId, InitiatingIpAddress, Result
| extend TargetName = tostring(split(Target,'@',0)[0]), TargetUPNSuffix = tostring(split(Target,'@',1)[0]), InitiatorName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), InitiatorUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])
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Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
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GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC