Azure PIM Invalid License Alert Incident

Alerts when Azure PIM reports an invalid or missing license condition for the organization.

FreeReviewedSigma · High · v5

Product: azure
Service: pim
Author: Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo' (SigmaHQ), DRL 1.1
Published: 2023-09-14
Updated: 2026-07-31

ATT&CK techniques

Initial Access → Defense Evasion

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
- T1078Valid Accounts
Execution
Persistence
- T1078Valid Accounts
Priv Esc
- T1078Valid Accounts
Defense Evasion
- T1078Valid Accounts
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule flags a PIM invalid license alert incident indicating the organization does not have the proper licensing to use Privileged Identity Management. Attackers can exploit misconfigurations or unsupported governance states to gain or maintain privileged access. The detection relies on Azure PIM telemetry where the risk event type is reported as invalidLicenseAlertIncident.

Reporting behind it

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Azure PIM Invalid License Alert Incident

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Changelog

v5
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v4
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v3
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v2
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v1
No changelog recorded for this version.2026-07-30

Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.

azure-pim-invalid-license-alert-detection-58af08eb

title: Azure PIM Invalid License Alert Incident
id: fbf402cd-2b46-4ec7-87d2-85b7a49ba85e
status: test
description: This rule flags a PIM invalid license alert incident indicating the organization does not have the proper licensing to use Privileged Identity Management. Attackers can exploit misconfigurations or unsupported governance states to gain or maintain privileged access. The detection relies on Azure PIM telemetry where the risk event type is reported as invalidLicenseAlertIncident.
references:
  - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-governance/privileged-identity-management/pim-how-to-configure-security-alerts#the-organization-doesnt-have-microsoft-entra-premium-p2-or-microsoft-entra-id-governance
  - https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/master/rules/cloud/azure/privileged_identity_management/azure_pim_invalid_license.yml
author: Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo', Huntrule Team
date: 2023-09-14
tags:
  - attack.initial-access
  - attack.stealth
  - attack.t1078
  - attack.persistence
  - attack.privilege-escalation
logsource:
  product: azure
  service: pim
detection:
  selection:
    riskEventType: invalidLicenseAlertIncident
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Investigate if licenses have expired.
level: high
license: DRL-1.1
related:
  - id: 58af08eb-f9e1-43c8-9805-3ad9b0482bd8
    type: derived

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