Malicious Azure AD Token Abuse via Roadtx

ATT&CK techniques

Defense Evasion → Lateral Movement

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
- T1550.001Application Access Token
Cred Access
- T1606.002SAML Tokens
Discovery
Lateral Movement
- T1550.001Application Access Token
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects execution of roadtx, a ROADtools utility used to request and manipulate Azure AD and Microsoft Graph tokens by impersonating first-party clients such as Microsoft Teams. Observed in a hands-on-keyboard operation, it enables token theft and cloud identity abuse against Entra ID. Roadtx on an endpoint indicates an actor pivoting to cloud identity compromise.

Reporting behind it

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Malicious Azure AD Token Abuse via Roadtx

Pivot detection · T1550.001 · 9 related

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