Name:Azure AD User Enabled And Password Reset id:1347b9e8-2daa-4a6f-be73-b421d3d9e268 version:5 date:2024-09-30 author:Mauricio Velazco, Gowthamaraj Rajendran, Splunk status:production type:TTP Description:The following analytic detects an Azure AD user enabling a previously disabled account and resetting its password within 2 minutes. It uses Azure Active Directory events to identify this sequence of actions. This activity is significant because it may indicate an adversary with administrative access attempting to establish a backdoor identity within the Azure AD tenant. If confirmed malicious, this could allow the attacker to maintain persistent access, escalate privileges, and potentially exfiltrate sensitive information from the environment. Data_source:
-Azure Active Directory Enable account
-Azure Active Directory Reset password (by admin)
-Azure Active Directory Update user
search:`azure_monitor_aad` (operationName="Enable account" OR operationName="Reset password (by admin)" OR operationName="Update user") | transaction user startsWith=(operationName="Enable account") endsWith=(operationName="Reset password (by admin)") maxspan=2m | rename properties.* as * | rename initiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName as initiatedBy | stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(operationName) as operationName values(initiatedBy) as initiatedBy by user, result | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` | `azure_ad_user_enabled_and_password_reset_filter`
how_to_implement:You must install the latest version of Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services from Splunkbase(https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3110/#/details). You must be ingesting Azure Active Directory events into your Splunk environment. This analytic was written to be used with the azure:monitor:aad sourcetype leveraging the AuditLog log category. known_false_positives:While not common, Administrators may enable accounts and reset their passwords for legitimate reasons. Filter as needed. References: -https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/ drilldown_searches: name:'View the detection results for - "$user$"' search:'%original_detection_search% | search user = "$user$"' earliest_offset:'$info_min_time$' latest_offset:'$info_max_time$' name:'View risk events for the last 7 days for - "$user$"' search:'| from datamodel Risk.All_Risk | search normalized_risk_object IN ("$user$") starthoursago=168 | stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(search_name) as "Search Name" values(risk_message) as "Risk Message" values(analyticstories) as "Analytic Stories" values(annotations._all) as "Annotations" values(annotations.mitre_attack.mitre_tactic) as "ATT&CK Tactics" by normalized_risk_object | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`' earliest_offset:'$info_min_time$' latest_offset:'$info_max_time$' tags: analytic_story: - 'Azure Active Directory Persistence' asset_type:Azure Active Directory confidence:90 impact:50 message:A user account, $user$, was enabled and its password reset within 2 minutes by $initiatedBy$ mitre_attack_id: - 'T1098' observable: name:'user' type:'User' - role: - 'Victim' name:'initiatedBy' type:'User' - role: - 'Attacker' product: - 'Splunk Enterprise' - 'Splunk Enterprise Security' - 'Splunk Cloud' required_fields: - '_time' - 'operationName' - 'user' - 'properties.initiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName' - 'properties.result' risk_score:45 security_domain:identity
