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Account Created And Deleted Within A Close Time Frame

Detects when an account was created and deleted in a short period of time.

MITRE ATT&CK

privilege-escalationpersistenceinitial-accessdefense-evasion

Detection Query

selection:
  properties.message:
    - Add user
    - Delete user
  Status: Success
condition: selection

Author

Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', MikeDuddington, '@dudders1', Tim Shelton

Created

2022-08-11

Data Sources

azureauditlogs

Platforms

azure

References

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/architecture/security-operations-user-accounts#short-lived-accounts

Tags

attack.privilege-escalationattack.persistenceattack.initial-accessattack.defense-evasionattack.t1078

Raw Content

title: Account Created And Deleted Within A Close Time Frame
id: 6f583da0-3a90-4566-a4ed-83c09fe18bbf
status: test
description: Detects when an account was created and deleted in a short period of time.
references:
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/architecture/security-operations-user-accounts#short-lived-accounts
author: Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', MikeDuddington, '@dudders1', Tim Shelton
date: 2022-08-11
modified: 2022-08-18
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.initial-access
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.t1078
logsource:
    product: azure
    service: auditlogs
detection:
    selection:
        properties.message:
            - Add user
            - Delete user
        Status: Success
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legit administrative action
level: high