Malicious Azure Elevate Access to User Access Administrator

ATT&CK techniques

Persistence → Defense Evasion

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
- T1098.003Additional Cloud Roles
Priv Esc
- T1098.003Additional Cloud Roles
- T1548Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
Defense Evasion
- T1548Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects the Microsoft.Authorization/elevateAccess/action operation, which assigns the calling Global Administrator the User Access Administrator role across all Azure subscriptions in the tenant. Adversaries who compromise a Global Administrator use elevateAccess to break out of Entra ID into the Azure resource plane and take control of every subscription. This is important because it is a high-impact privilege escalation that exposes all cloud resources.

Reporting behind it

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Malicious Azure Elevate Access to User Access Administrator

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