↳ Source GitHubRègle analytiqueHigh

Admin promotion after Role Management Application Permission Grant

Description

'This rule looks for a service principal being granted the Microsoft Graph RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory (application) permission before being used to add an Microsoft Entra ID object or user account to an Admin directory role (i.e. Global Administrators). This is a known attack path that is usually abused when a service principal already has the AppRoleAssignment.ReadWrite.All permission granted. This permission allows an app to manage permission grants for application permissions to any API. A service principal can promote itself or other service principals to admin roles (i.e. Global Administrators). This would be considered a privilege escalation technique. Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/graph/permissions-reference#role-management-permissions, https://docs.microsoft.com/graph/api/directoryrole-post-members?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http'
Type de règle
Scheduled
Version
1.1.0
Statut déclaré
Available
Fréquence
1h
Période analysée
2h
Déclenchement
gt 0

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Requête KQL

Requête originale, sans modification.

let query_frequency = 1h;
let query_period = 2h;
AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(query_period)
| where Category =~ "ApplicationManagement" and LoggedByService =~ "Core Directory"
| where OperationName =~ "Add app role assignment to service principal"
| mv-expand TargetResource = TargetResources
| mv-expand modifiedProperty = TargetResource["modifiedProperties"]
| where tostring(modifiedProperty["displayName"]) == "AppRole.Value"
| extend PermissionGrant = tostring(modifiedProperty["newValue"])
| where PermissionGrant has "RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory"
| mv-apply modifiedProperty = TargetResource["modifiedProperties"] on (
    summarize modifiedProperties = make_bag(
        bag_pack(tostring(modifiedProperty["displayName"]),
            bag_pack("oldValue", trim(@'[\"\s]+', tostring(modifiedProperty["oldValue"])),
                "newValue", trim(@'[\"\s]+', tostring(modifiedProperty["newValue"])))), 100)
)
| project
    PermissionGrant_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated,
    PermissionGrant_OperationName = OperationName,
    PermissionGrant_Result = Result,
    PermissionGrant,
    AppDisplayName = tostring(modifiedProperties["ServicePrincipal.DisplayName"]["newValue"]),
    AppServicePrincipalId = tostring(modifiedProperties["ServicePrincipal.ObjectID"]["newValue"]),
    PermissionGrant_InitiatedBy = InitiatedBy,
    PermissionGrant_TargetResources = TargetResources,
    PermissionGrant_AdditionalDetails = AdditionalDetails,
    PermissionGrant_CorrelationId = CorrelationId
| join kind=inner (
    AuditLogs
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(query_frequency)
    | where Category =~ "RoleManagement" and LoggedByService =~ "Core Directory" and AADOperationType =~ "Assign"
    | where isnotempty(InitiatedBy["app"])
    | mv-expand TargetResource = TargetResources
    | mv-expand modifiedProperty = TargetResource["modifiedProperties"]
    | where tostring(modifiedProperty["displayName"]) in ("Role.DisplayName", "RoleDefinition.DisplayName")
    | extend RoleAssignment = tostring(modifiedProperty["newValue"])
    | where RoleAssignment contains "Admin"
    | project
        RoleAssignment_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated,
        RoleAssignment_OperationName = OperationName,
        RoleAssignment_Result = Result,
        RoleAssignment,
        TargetType = tostring(TargetResources[0]["type"]),
        Target = iff(isnotempty(TargetResources[0]["displayName"]), tostring(TargetResources[0]["displayName"]), tolower(TargetResources[0]["userPrincipalName"])),
        TargetId = tostring(TargetResources[0]["id"]),
        RoleAssignment_InitiatedBy = InitiatedBy,
        RoleAssignment_TargetResources = TargetResources,
        RoleAssignment_AdditionalDetails = AdditionalDetails,
        RoleAssignment_CorrelationId = CorrelationId,
        AppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy["app"]["servicePrincipalId"])
    ) on AppServicePrincipalId
| where PermissionGrant_TimeGenerated < RoleAssignment_TimeGenerated
| extend
    TargetName = tostring(split(Target, "@")[0]),
    TargetUPNSuffix = tostring(split(Target, "@")[1])
| project PermissionGrant_TimeGenerated, PermissionGrant_OperationName, PermissionGrant_Result, PermissionGrant, AppDisplayName, AppServicePrincipalId, PermissionGrant_InitiatedBy, PermissionGrant_TargetResources, PermissionGrant_AdditionalDetails, PermissionGrant_CorrelationId, 
RoleAssignment_TimeGenerated, RoleAssignment_OperationName, RoleAssignment_Result, RoleAssignment, TargetType, Target, TargetName, TargetUPNSuffix, TargetId, RoleAssignment_InitiatedBy, RoleAssignment_TargetResources, RoleAssignment_AdditionalDetails, RoleAssignment_CorrelationId
| extend PermissionGrant_InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(PermissionGrant_InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend PermissionGrant_InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(PermissionGrant_InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend PermissionGrant_InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(PermissionGrant_InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), PermissionGrant_InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, PermissionGrant_InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| extend PermissionGrant_InitiatingAccountName = tostring(split(PermissionGrant_InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0]), PermissionGrant_InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(PermissionGrant_InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1])
| extend RoleAssignment_InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(RoleAssignment_InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend RoleAssignment_InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(RoleAssignment_InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend RoleAssignment_InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(RoleAssignment_InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), RoleAssignment_InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, RoleAssignment_InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| extend RoleAssignment_InitiatingAccountName = tostring(split(RoleAssignment_InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0]),  RoleAssignment_InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(RoleAssignment_InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1])

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f80d951a-eddc-4171-b9d0-d616bb83efdc
Autres fichiers source 3Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Analytic Rules/AdminPromoAfterRoleMgmtAppPermissionGrant.yamlsource ↗Detections/AuditLogs/AdminPromoAfterRoleMgmtAppPermissionGrant.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Data/Solution_AAD.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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