Attempt to Reset MFA Factors for Okta User Accountedit

An adversary may attempt to remove the multi-factor authentication (MFA) factors registered on an Okta user’s account in order to register new MFA factors and abuse the account to blend in with normal activity in the victim’s environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Identity
  • Okta
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Identity and Access

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positivesedit

Consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives if the MFA factors for Okta user accounts are regularly reset in your organization.

Investigation guideedit

The Okta Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule queryedit

event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:user.mfa.factor.reset_all

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
    event.action:user.mfa.factor.reset_all