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Azure Ad Federated Identity Credential

Date: 2026-06-10 ID: e3a7f1c2-9b4d-4e6a-8c1f-2d5a9b7e4c31 Author: descambiado Environment: attack_range Directory: azure_ad_federated_identity_credential

Description

Added a federated identity credential to an Entra ID service principal, pointing the trust to an external GitHub Actions OIDC issuer/repo not controlled by the tenant. Includes one benign Update service principal event (DisplayName change) with no FederatedIdentityCredentials property, to validate filter specificity. Tenant specific details have been replaced in the dataset including tenant id, user names, ips, etc.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory azure_ad_federated_identity_credential
Test Date 2026-06-10

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Azure-Audit

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1098.001/azure_ad_federated_identity_credential/azure-audit.log
  • Sourcetype: azure:monitor:aad
  • Source: azure

No specific detections currently use this attack data for testing. However, you can find related detections and analytics in our security content repository.

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1098.001/azure_ad_federated_identity_credential/azure-audit.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

Related Content

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

Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0