Azure Ad Service Principal Authentication

Description

Used python to authenticate as a service principal to an Azure AD tenant. Tenant specific details have been replaced in the dataset including tenant id, user names, ips, etc.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1078.004 Cloud Accounts Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory azure_ad_service_principal_authentication
Test Date 2024-02-12

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Azure_ad_service_principal_authentication

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1078.004/azure_ad_service_principal_authentication/azure_ad_service_principal_authentication.log
  • Sourcetype: linux_secure
  • Source: linux_secure

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Azure AD Service Principal Authentication TTP Cloud T1078.004 Azure Active Directory Account Takeover, NOBELIUM Group

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1078.004/azure_ad_service_principal_authentication/azure_ad_service_principal_authentication.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0