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Potential Admin Group Account Additionedit
Identifies attempts to add an account to the admin group via the command line. This could be an indication of privilege escalation activity.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- auditbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- macOS
- Threat Detection
- Privilege Escalation
Version: 100 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule queryedit
event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:(dscl or dseditgroup) and process.args:(("/Groups/admin" or admin) and ("-a" or "-append"))
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Privilege Escalation
- ID: TA0004
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
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Technique:
- Name: Valid Accounts
- ID: T1078
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1078/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (8.4.0 release)
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- Formatting only