Malicious AzureHound Cloud Reconnaissance via User Agent (via azure)

ATT&CK techniques

Discovery

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
Discovery
- T1087.004Cloud Account
- T1526Cloud Service Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects sign-ins and Graph API activity carrying the azurehound user-agent string, indicating use of the AzureHound collector to enumerate users, groups, roles, and service principals. Threat actors run AzureHound to map Azure and Entra ID attack paths before privilege escalation. Detecting the tool user-agent exposes cloud discovery activity at its source identity.

Reporting behind it

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