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Account added and removed from privileged groups
'Identifies accounts that are added to a privileged group and then quickly removed, which could be a sign of compromise.'
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Rule sourceDetections/SecurityEvent/UserAccountAdd-Removed.yaml
let WellKnownLocalSID = "S-1-5-32-5[0-9][0-9]$";
let WellKnownGroupSID = "S-1-5-21-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-5[0-9][0-9]$|S-1-5-21-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-1102$|S-1-5-21-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-1103$|S-1-5-21-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-498$|S-1-5-21-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-[0-9]*-1000$";
let AC_Add =
(union isfuzzy=true
(SecurityEvent
// Event ID related to member addition.
| where EventID in (4728, 4732,4756)
| where TargetSid matches regex WellKnownLocalSID or TargetSid matches regex WellKnownGroupSID
| parse EventData with * '"MemberName">' * '=' AccountAdded ",OU" *
| where isnotempty(AccountAdded)
| extend GroupAddedTo = TargetUserName, AddingAccount = Account
| extend AccountAdded_GroupAddedTo_AddingAccount = strcat(AccountAdded, "||", GroupAddedTo, "||", AddingAccount )
| project AccountAdded_GroupAddedTo_AddingAccount, AccountAddedTime = TimeGenerated
),
(WindowsEvent
// Event ID related to member addition.
| where EventID in (4728, 4732,4756)
| extend TargetSid = tostring(EventData.TargetSid)
| where TargetSid matches regex WellKnownLocalSID or TargetSid matches regex WellKnownGroupSID
| parse EventData.MemberName with * '"MemberName">' * '=' AccountAdded ",OU" *
| where isnotempty(AccountAdded)
| extend TargetUserName = tostring(EventData.TargetUserName)
| extend AddingAccount = strcat(tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName),"\\", tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName))
| extend GroupAddedTo = TargetUserName
| extend AccountAdded_GroupAddedTo_AddingAccount = strcat(AccountAdded, "||", GroupAddedTo, "||", AddingAccount )
| project AccountAdded_GroupAddedTo_AddingAccount, AccountAddedTime = TimeGenerated
)
);
let AC_Remove =
( union isfuzzy=true
(SecurityEvent
// Event IDs related to member removal.
| where EventID in (4729,4733,4757)
| where TargetSid matches regex WellKnownLocalSID or TargetSid matches regex WellKnownGroupSID
| parse EventData with * '"MemberName">' * '=' AccountRemoved ",OU" *
| where isnotempty(AccountRemoved)
| extend GroupRemovedFrom = TargetUserName, RemovingAccount = Account
| extend AccountRemoved_GroupRemovedFrom_RemovingAccount = strcat(AccountRemoved, "||", GroupRemovedFrom, "||", RemovingAccount)
| project AccountRemoved_GroupRemovedFrom_RemovingAccount, AccountRemovedTime = TimeGenerated, Computer, AccountRemoved = tolower(AccountRemoved),
RemovingAccount, RemovingAccountLogonId = SubjectLogonId, GroupRemovedFrom = TargetUserName, TargetDomainName
),
(WindowsEvent
// Event IDs related to member removal.
| where EventID in (4729,4733,4757)
| extend TargetSid = tostring(EventData.TargetSid)
| where TargetSid matches regex WellKnownLocalSID or TargetSid matches regex WellKnownGroupSID
| parse EventData.MemberName with * '"MemberName">' * '=' AccountRemoved ",OU" *
| where isnotempty(AccountRemoved)
| extend TargetUserName = tostring(EventData.TargetUserName)
| extend RemovingAccount = strcat(tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName),"\\", tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName))
| extend GroupRemovedFrom = TargetUserName
| extend AccountRemoved_GroupRemovedFrom_RemovingAccount = strcat(AccountRemoved, "||", GroupRemovedFrom, "||", RemovingAccount)
| extend RemovedAccountLogonId= tostring(EventData.SubjectLogonId)
| extend TargetDomainName = tostring(EventData.TargetDomainName)
| project AccountRemoved_GroupRemovedFrom_RemovingAccount, AccountRemovedTime = TimeGenerated, Computer, AccountRemoved = tolower(AccountRemoved),
RemovingAccount, RemovedAccountLogonId, GroupRemovedFrom = TargetUserName, TargetDomainName
));
AC_Add
| join kind = inner AC_Remove
on $left.AccountAdded_GroupAddedTo_AddingAccount == $right.AccountRemoved_GroupRemovedFrom_RemovingAccount
| extend DurationinSecondAfter_Removed = datetime_diff ('second', AccountRemovedTime, AccountAddedTime)
| where DurationinSecondAfter_Removed > 0
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Computer, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Computer, DomainIndex + 1), Computer)
| extend RemovedAccountName = tostring(split(AccountRemoved, @"\")[1]), RemovedAccountNTDomain = tostring(split(AccountRemoved, @"\")[0])
| extend RemovingAccountName = tostring(split(RemovingAccount, @"\")[1]), RemovingAccountNTDomain = tostring(split(RemovingAccount, @"\")[0])
| project-away DomainIndex