Suspicious Granting Of Permissions To An Account (via activitylogs)

title: Suspicious Granting Of Permissions To An Account (via activitylogs)
id: dfd52f7c-8bdc-5451-93f9-308745abc9df
status: stable
description: This rule detects IPs from which users grant access to other users on azure resources and alerts when a previously unseen source IP address is used.
references:
    - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/003/
    - https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/e534407884b1ec5371efc9f76ead282176c9e8bb/Detections/AzureActivity/Granting_Permissions_To_Account_detection.yaml
author: Huntrule Team
date: 2026-01-09
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.t1098.003
logsource:
    product: azure
    service: activitylogs
detection:
    keywords:
        - Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/write
    condition: keywords
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium