O365 Mail Permissioned Application Consent Granted by User

Name:O365 Mail Permissioned Application Consent Granted by User
id:fddad083-cdf5-419d-83c6-baa85e329595
version:3
date:2024-09-30
author:Mauricio Velazco, Splunk
status:production
type:TTP
Description:The following analytic identifies instances where a user grants consent to an application requesting mail-related permissions within the Office 365 environment. It leverages O365 audit logs, specifically focusing on events related to application permissions and user consent actions. This activity is significant as it can indicate potential security risks, such as data exfiltration or spear phishing, if malicious applications gain access. If confirmed malicious, this could lead to unauthorized data access, email forwarding, or sending malicious emails from the compromised account. Validating the legitimacy of the application and consent context is crucial to prevent data breaches.
Data_source:

• -O365 Consent to application.

search:`o365_management_activity` Workload=AzureActiveDirectory Operation="Consent to application." ResultStatus=Success
| eval admin_consent =mvindex('ModifiedProperties{}.NewValue', 0)
| search admin_consent=False
| eval permissions =mvindex('ModifiedProperties{}.NewValue', 4)
| rex field=permissions "Scope: (?<Scope>[^,]+)"
| makemv delim=" " Scope
| search Scope IN ("Mail.Read", "Mail.ReadBasic", "Mail.ReadWrite", "Mail.Read.Shared", "Mail.ReadWrite.Shared", "Mail.Send", "Mail.Send.Shared")
| stats max(_time) as lastTime values(Scope) by Operation, user, object, ObjectId
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `o365_mail_permissioned_application_consent_granted_by_user_filter`

how_to_implement:You must install the Splunk Microsoft Office 365 Add-on and ingest Office 365 management activity events.
known_false_positives:OAuth applications that require mail permissions may be legitimate, investigate and filter as needed.
References:
  -https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1528/
  -https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/09/22/malicious-oauth-applications-used-to-compromise-email-servers-and-spread-spam/
  -https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/protect-against-consent-phishing
  -https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-cloud-apps/investigate-risky-oauth
  -https://www.alteredsecurity.com/post/introduction-to-365-stealer
  -https://github.com/AlteredSecurity/365-Stealer
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:
    - 'Office 365 Account Takeover'
  asset_type:O365 Tenant
  confidence:50
  impact:80
  message:User $user$ consented an OAuth application that requests mail-related permissions.
  mitre_attack_id:
    - 'T1528'
  observable:
    name:'user'
    type:'User'
    - role:
      - 'Victim'
  product:
    - 'Splunk Enterprise'
    - 'Splunk Enterprise Security'
    - 'Splunk Cloud'
  risk_score:40
  required_fields:
    - '_time'
    - 'Workload'
    - 'Operation'
    - 'ResultStatus'
    - 'ModifiedProperties{}.NewValue'
    - 'object'
    - 'ObjectId'
  security_domain:identity

tests:
 name:'True Positive Test'
 attack_data:
  data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1528/o365_user_consent_mail_permissions/o365_user_consent_mail_permissions.log
  source: o365
  sourcetype: o365:management:activity
manual_test:None