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ATT&CK technique

T1098

Account Manipulation

PersistencePrivilege Escalation 280 detections found
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Detection rules

Source Rule Status Updated
elastic GCP Vertex AI Role Granted to Principal production 2026-10-23
elastic AWS EKS Creation or Modification of Sensitive Role production 2026-10-21
elastic AWS EKS Creation of a RoleBinding Referencing a ServiceAccount production 2026-10-21
elastic AWS EKS Service Account Modified RBAC Objects production 2026-10-21
elastic AWS EKS Cluster-Admin Role Binding Created production 2026-10-21
elastic AWS EKS Unusual Kubernetes Sensitive Workload Modification production 2026-10-21
elastic AWS EKS Sensitive RBAC Change Followed by Workload Modification production 2026-10-21
elastic M365 Exchange MFA Notification Email Deleted or Moved production 2026-10-20
elastic AWS EKS RBAC Wildcard Elevation on Existing Role production 2026-10-20
elastic Entra ID Application Credential Modified production 2026-10-19
elastic Entra ID Application Self-Assigned to Privileged Role production 2026-10-19
sigma HackTool - GoldenDMSA Execution experimental 2026-10-19
elastic Entra ID Service Principal Credentials Created by Unusual User production 2026-10-19
elastic Entra ID Global Administrator Role Assigned production 2026-10-19
elastic Entra ID Privileged Role Assigned to Another Account production 2026-10-19
elastic AWS EKS Client Certificate Signing Request Created or Approved production 2026-10-09
elastic OpenSSL Password Hash Generation production 2026-10-09
splunk Windows Entra User Management Via Azure CLI production 2026-10-09
elastic Linux User Added to Privileged Group production 2026-10-09
elastic AWS EKS Authentication Configuration Modified production 2026-10-09
elastic Entra ID Device Registration with Phishing Kit Default OS Build production 2026-10-07
elastic Anthropic Primary Owner Transferred production 2026-10-07
elastic AWS Bedrock AgentCore with Public Network Browser or Code Interpreter Sandbox production 2026-10-07
elastic Anthropic Admin Role Assigned to User production 2026-10-07
elastic Entra ID Register Device with Phishing Kit or ROADtools User Agent production 2026-10-07
elastic OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise Codex Access Token Created production 2026-10-06
elastic OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise Domain Created production 2026-10-06
elastic OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise App Authentication Linked production 2026-10-06
elastic OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise Account Owner Role Assigned production 2026-10-06
elastic Modification of the msPKIAccountCredentials production 2026-10-06
elastic User account exposed to Kerberoasting production 2026-10-06
elastic M365 SharePoint Site Administrator Added production 2026-10-06
elastic AWS Bedrock Foundation Model Access Enabled or Entitlement Granted production 2026-10-06
elastic AWS Bedrock Unauthorized Foundation Model Access Attempt production 2026-10-06
splunk Windows AD DSRM Password Reset production 2026-10-02
elastic Entra ID Federated Identity Credential Modified production 2026-10-01
elastic ESXi Account Granted Admin Role production 2026-09-30
elastic ESXi Root Password Changed production 2026-09-30
elastic Anthropic Organization Domain Boundary Changed production 2026-09-25
elastic AWS IAM Credentials Added to a Bedrock API Key Phantom User production 2026-09-25
elastic AWS Bedrock AgentCore Resource Created with IAM Execution Role production 2026-09-25
elastic AWS Bedrock Resource-Based Policy Modified or Deleted production 2026-09-25
elastic AWS Bedrock Unauthorized Resource-Based Policy Modification Attempt production 2026-09-25
elastic Anthropic Sensitive Claude Project Role Assigned to User production 2026-09-25
elastic Anthropic Admin API Key Created production 2026-09-25
elastic Anthropic Compliance API Key Created production 2026-09-25
elastic Google Workspace Object Copied from External Drive with App Consent production 2026-09-24
splunk Windows AD Self DACL Assignment production 2026-09-22
splunk Windows AD Privileged Group Modification production 2026-09-22
elastic Kubernetes Client Certificate Signing Request Created or Approved production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE RBAC Wildcard Elevation on Existing Role production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Sensitive RBAC Change Followed by Workload Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Service Account Modified RBAC Objects production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Unusual Sensitive Workload Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic New GitHub App Installed production 2026-09-18
elastic New GitHub Owner Added production 2026-09-18
elastic New GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) Added production 2026-09-18
elastic GitHub Owner Role Granted To User production 2026-09-18
elastic External User Added to Google Workspace Group production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace Suspended User Account Renewed production 2026-09-18
elastic Application Added to Google Workspace Domain production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace Admin Role Assigned to a User or Group production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace API Access Granted via Domain-Wide Delegation production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace Custom Admin Role Created production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace Device Registration After OAuth from Suspicious ASN production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace User Sign-in from Atypical Device Type production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace Device Registration Burst for Single User production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace Password Policy Modified production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace Role Modified production 2026-09-18
elastic Google Workspace User Organizational Unit Changed production 2026-09-18
elastic Kubernetes Cluster-Admin Role Binding Created production 2026-09-18
elastic EKS Authentication Configuration Modified production 2026-09-18
elastic Kubernetes Creation or Modification of Sensitive Role production 2026-09-18
elastic Kubernetes Creation of a RoleBinding Referencing a ServiceAccount production 2026-09-18
elastic Kubernetes RBAC Wildcard Elevation on Existing Role production 2026-09-18
elastic Kubernetes Sensitive RBAC Change Followed by Workload Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic Unusual Kubernetes Sensitive Workload Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic Kubernetes Service Account Modified RBAC Objects production 2026-09-18
elastic M365 Identity OAuth Flow by User Sign-in to Device Registration production 2026-09-18
elastic M365 Exchange Mailbox Audit Logging Bypass Added production 2026-09-18
elastic M365 Identity OAuth Illicit Consent Grant by Rare Client and User production 2026-09-18
elastic M365 Identity Global Administrator Role Assigned production 2026-09-18
elastic M365 Exchange Management Group Role Assigned production 2026-09-18
elastic M365 Exchange Mailbox High-Risk Permission Delegated production 2026-09-18
elastic Deprecated - M365 Teams Guest Access Enabled production 2026-09-18
elastic Administrator Privileges Assigned to an Okta Group production 2026-09-18
elastic Okta User Assigned Administrator Role production 2026-09-18
elastic Attempt to Create Okta API Token production 2026-09-18
elastic Attempt to Reset MFA Factors for an Okta User Account production 2026-09-18
elastic Spike in Group Application Assignment Change Events production 2026-09-18
elastic Spike in Group Lifecycle Change Events production 2026-09-18
elastic Spike in Group Membership Events production 2026-09-18
elastic Spike in Group Privilege Change Events production 2026-09-18
elastic Spike in User Lifecycle Management Change Events production 2026-09-18
elastic Spike in Group Management Events production 2026-09-18
elastic Spike in User Account Management Events production 2026-09-18
elastic Unusual Group Name Accessed by a User production 2026-09-18
elastic Unusual Privilege Type assigned to a User production 2026-09-18
elastic Pod or Container Creation with Suspicious Command-Line production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Linux Backdoor User Account Creation production 2026-09-18
elastic Linux Group Creation production 2026-09-18
elastic Shadow File Modification by Unusual Process production 2026-09-18
elastic SSH Key Generated via ssh-keygen production 2026-09-18
elastic Unusual Login via System User production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Suspicious File Edit production 2026-09-18
elastic Linux User Account Credential Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic User or Group Creation/Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic SSFileCopyReceiver Writing to Common Persistence Locations production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Admin Group Account Addition production 2026-09-18
elastic User Added to the Admin Group production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Redis CONFIG SET SSH Authorized Key Injection production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Active Directory Replication Account Backdoor production 2026-09-18
elastic Kerberos Pre-authentication Disabled for User production 2026-09-18
elastic Sensitive Privilege SeEnableDelegationPrivilege assigned to a Principal production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Shadow Credentials added to AD Object production 2026-09-18
elastic AdminSDHolder Backdoor production 2026-09-18
elastic Account Configured with Never-Expiring Password production 2026-09-18
elastic Active Directory Group Modification by SYSTEM production 2026-09-18
elastic KRBTGT Delegation Backdoor production 2026-09-18
elastic New ActiveSyncAllowedDeviceID Added via PowerShell production 2026-09-18
elastic Account Password Reset Remotely production 2026-09-18
elastic AdminSDHolder SDProp Exclusion Added production 2026-09-18
elastic User Added to Privileged Group in Active Directory production 2026-09-18
elastic Delegated Managed Service Account Modification by an Unusual User production 2026-09-18
elastic dMSA Account Creation by an Unusual User production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Privileged Escalation via SamAccountName Spoofing production 2026-09-18
elastic SSH Authorized Keys File Activity production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM User Addition to Group production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Permission Boundary or Guardrail Policy Deleted by Unusual Identity production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS First Occurrence of STS GetFederationToken Request by User production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS S3 Bucket Policy Added to Share with External Account production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS EC2 Instance Connect SSH Public Key Uploaded production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Virtual MFA Device Registration Attempt with Session Token production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS EKS Access Entry Created Then Deleted by Same Identity production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS EKS Access Entry Modified production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM API Calls via Temporary Session Tokens production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Login Profile Added for Root production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Login Profile Created or Modified for an IAM User production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Profile Creation production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Trust Anchor Created with External CA production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM SAML Provider Created production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS SES Full Access Policy Attached to IAM Entity by Unusual User production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM User Created Access Keys For Another User production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM User Self-Created Access Key Subsequently Used production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS EC2 CreateKeyPair by New Principal from Non-Cloud AS Organization production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS Organizations Delegated Administrator Registered production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS RDS DB Instance or Cluster Password Modified production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS Route 53 Domain Transfer Lock Disabled production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS Route 53 Domain Transferred to Another Account production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS Route 53 Private Hosted Zone Associated With a VPC production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS Sensitive IAM Operations Performed via CloudShell production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS EKS Access Entry Granted Cluster Admin Policy production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM AdministratorAccess Policy Attached to Group production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM AdministratorAccess Policy Attached to Role production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM AdministratorAccess Policy Attached to User production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Customer-Managed Policy Attached to Role by Rare User production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Customer Managed Policy Version Created or Default Version Set production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Inline Policy Added to a Group production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Permissions Boundary Modified or Removed production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Sensitive Operations via Lambda Execution Role production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS STS AssumeRoot by Rare User and Member Account production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Sharepoint or OneDrive Accessed by Unusual Client production 2026-09-18
elastic Azure Storage Account Key Regenerated production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Service Principal Federated Credential Authentication by Unusual Client production 2026-09-18
elastic Azure VM Extension Deployment by User production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID AiTM Phishing-Kit Chain Detected production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Guest Account Promoted to Member production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Microsoft Authentication Broker DRS Sign-In from Suspicious ASN production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Multiple Device Registrations by a Single User production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Global Administrator Role Assigned (PIM User) production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Role Modified production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Register Device with Unusual User Agent (Azure AD Join) production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Device Registration with ROADtools Default OS Build production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID OAuth PRT Issuance to Non-Managed Device Detected production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID ADRS Token Request by Microsoft Authentication Broker production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Unusual Cloud Device Registration production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID User Added as Registered Application Owner production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID User Added as Service Principal Owner production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID User Sign-in with Unusual Non-Managed Device production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Windows Hello for Business Credential Registered production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Deviceless Windows Hello Sign-in Followed by Device Registration production 2026-09-18
elastic Azure Event Hub Authorization Rule Created or Updated production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Protection User Alert and Device Registration production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Elevated Access to User Access Administrator production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Domain Federation Configuration Change production 2026-09-18
elastic Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Kubernetes Rolebindings Created production 2026-09-18
elastic SSH Authorized Key File Activity Detected via Defend for Containers production 2026-09-18
elastic Suspicious Echo or Printf Execution Detected via Defend for Containers production 2026-09-18
elastic CyberArk Privileged Access Security Recommended Monitor production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Phishing Kit Default OS Build (Entity Analytics) production 2026-09-18
elastic Entra ID Device with ROADtools Default OS Build (Entity Analytics) production 2026-09-18
elastic Potential Persistence via File Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic GCP Storage Bucket Permissions Modification production 2026-09-18
elastic GCP IAM Custom Role Creation production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Certificate Signing Request Self-Approved production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Client Certificate Signing Request Created or Approved production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Cluster-Admin Role Binding Created or Modified production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Creation of a RoleBinding Referencing a ServiceAccount production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Creation or Modification of Sensitive Role production 2026-09-18
elastic GCP IAM Service Account Key Deletion production 2026-09-18
elastic GCP Service Account Key Creation production 2026-09-18
elastic GCP IAM Service Account Impersonation Role Granted production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Certificate Signing Request API Client Signer Requested production 2026-09-18
elastic GKE Certificate Signing Request for Privileged Identity production 2026-09-18
elastic AWS IAM Assume Role Policy Update production 2026-09-17
elastic Azure RBAC Built-In Administrator Roles Assigned production 2026-09-17
sigma AWS IAM Backdoor Users Keys test 2026-08-14
splunk Linux Usermod Root UID Set production 2026-07-08
splunk Windows AD add Self to Group production 2026-06-01
splunk Windows Increase in Group or Object Modification Activity production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows Increase in User Modification Activity production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows Multiple Account Passwords Changed production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows Multiple Accounts Deleted production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows Multiple Accounts Disabled production 2026-05-13
splunk Cisco Configuration Archive Logging Analysis production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows AD DSRM Account Changes production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows AD ServicePrincipalName Added To Domain Account production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows AD Short Lived Domain Account ServicePrincipalName production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows Azure PowerShell Module Installation Via PowerShell Script production 2026-05-13
splunk Windows DnsAdmins New Member Added production 2026-05-13
splunk O365 Application Registration Owner Added production 2026-05-13
splunk Azure AD User ImmutableId Attribute Updated production 2026-05-13
splunk Azure AD User Enabled And Password Reset production 2026-05-13
splunk Azure AD Service Principal Owner Added production 2026-05-13
splunk AWS IAM Successful Group Deletion production 2026-05-13
splunk AWS IAM Failure Group Deletion production 2026-05-13
splunk AWS IAM Delete Policy production 2026-05-13
splunk ASL AWS IAM Successful Group Deletion production 2026-05-13
splunk ASL AWS IAM Failure Group Deletion production 2026-05-13
splunk ASL AWS IAM Delete Policy production 2026-05-13
splunk ESXi User Granted Admin Role production 2026-05-13
splunk ESXi Account Modified production 2026-05-13
splunk Cisco ASA - User Privilege Level Change production 2026-05-13
sigma Password Set to Never Expire via WMI experimental 2025-07-30
sigma DMSA Service Account Created in Specific OUs - PowerShell experimental 2025-05-24
sigma New DMSA Service Account Created in Specific OUs experimental 2025-05-24
sigma DMSA Link Attributes Modified experimental 2025-05-24
sigma Privileged User Has Been Created test 2025-01-21
sigma AWS User Login Profile Was Modified test 2024-04-26
sigma Active Directory User Backdoors test 2024-02-26
sigma Bitbucket Global Permission Changed test 2024-02-25
sigma User Added To Highly Privileged Group test 2024-02-23
sigma A New Trust Was Created To A Domain stable 2024-01-16
sigma GCP Access Policy Deleted test 2024-01-12
sigma Google Workspace User Granted Admin Privileges test 2023-10-11
sigma Number Of Resource Creation Or Deployment Activities test 2023-10-11
sigma Google Workspace Granted Domain API Access test 2023-10-11
sigma ESXi Admin Permission Assigned To Account Via ESXCLI test 2023-09-04
sigma Anomalous User Activity test 2023-09-03
sigma A Member Was Removed From a Security-Enabled Global Group stable 2023-04-26
sigma A Security-Enabled Global Group Was Deleted stable 2023-04-26
sigma A Member Was Added to a Security-Enabled Global Group stable 2023-04-26
sigma User Added to Local Administrators Group test 2023-03-02
elastic Google Workspace User Group Access Modified to Allow External Access deprecated 2023-02-16
sigma Cisco Local Accounts test 2023-01-04
sigma Suspicious Computer Account Name Change CVE-2021-42287 test 2022-12-25
sigma Change to Authentication Method test 2022-12-25
sigma AWS Route 53 Domain Transferred to Another Account test 2022-10-09
sigma AWS Route 53 Domain Transfer Lock Disabled test 2022-10-09
sigma Powerview Add-DomainObjectAcl DCSync AD Extend Right test 2022-08-16
sigma Bulk Deletion Changes To Privileged Account Permissions test 2022-08-05
sigma Powershell LocalAccount Manipulation test 2021-12-28
sigma Enabled User Right in AD to Control User Objects test 2021-12-02
sigma User Added to Local Administrator Group stable 2021-01-17
sigma Password Change on Directory Service Restore Mode (DSRM) Account stable 2020-08-23
sentinel User account added to built in domain local or global group Scheduled —
sentinel User account created and deleted within 10 mins Scheduled —
sentinel User account enabled and disabled within 10 mins Scheduled —
sentinel New user created and added to the built-in administrators group Scheduled —
sentinel AD account with Don't Expire Password Scheduled —
sentinel External User Access Enabled Scheduled —
sentinel Anomalous login followed by Teams action Scheduled —
sentinel High risk Office operation conducted by IP Address that recently attempted to log into a disabled account Scheduled —
sentinel Sign-ins from IPs that attempt sign-ins to disabled accounts (Uses Authentication Normalization) Scheduled —
sentinel NRT Malicious Inbox Rule NRT —
sentinel User State changed from Guest to Member Scheduled —
sentinel Detect PIM Alert Disabling activity Scheduled —
sentinel DSRM Account Abuse Scheduled —
sentinel Group created then added to built in domain local or global group Scheduled —
sentinel Account added and removed from privileged groups Scheduled —