User Added to Privileged Group in Active Directoryedit
Identifies a user being added to a privileged group in Active Directory. Privileged accounts and groups in Active Directory are those to which powerful rights, privileges, and permissions are granted that allow them to perform nearly any action in Active Directory and on domain-joined systems.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Persistence
Version: 3
Rule authors:
- Elastic
- Skoetting
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule queryedit
iam where event.action == "added-member-to-group" and
group.name : ("Admin*",
"Local Administrators",
"Domain Admins",
"Enterprise Admins",
"Backup Admins",
"Schema Admins",
"DnsAdmins",
"Exchange Organization Administrators")
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/