Sigma rule: New Root Certificate Authority Added
A detection rule from the SigmaHQ repository, shown as its author published it. Dataset version ref-f536f0412dea, updated 2024-03-26T00:00:00.000Z.
Rule
- Title
- New Root Certificate Authority Added
- Status
- test
- Level
- medium
- Author
- Harjot Shah Singh, '@cyb3rjy0t'
- Date
- 2024-03-26
- File
- rules/cloud/azure/audit_logs/azure_ad_new_root_ca_added.yml
- Commit
- ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84
Detects newly added root certificate authority to an AzureAD tenant to support certificate based authentication.
Log source
- product
- azure
- service
- auditlogs
Detection
selection:
OperationName: 'Set Company Information'
TargetResources.modifiedProperties.newValue|contains: 'TrustedCAsForPasswordlessAuth'
condition: selectionFalse positives (as the rule lists them)
- Unknown
Tags
- attack.credential-access
- attack.persistence
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.defense-impairment
- attack.t1556
MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names
References
- https://posts.specterops.io/passwordless-persistence-and-privilege-escalation-in-azure-98a01310be3f
- https://goodworkaround.com/2022/02/15/digging-into-azure-ad-certificate-based-authentication/
Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/cloud/azure/audit_logs/azure_ad_new_root_ca_added.yml
Sources and licences
SigmaHQ
"New Root Certificate Authority Added" by Harjot Shah Singh, '@cyb3rjy0t' (SigmaHQ). Rule: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/cloud/azure/audit_logs/azure_ad_new_root_ca_added.yml.
Licensed under the Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/Detection-Rule-License
Cite this page
Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "Sigma rule: New Root Certificate Authority Added",
entity page, dataset version ref-f536f0412dea, updated 2024-03-26T00:00:00.000Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/detections/sigma/4bb80281-3756-4ec8-a88e-523c5a6fda9e (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: SigmaHQ rule 4bb80281-3756-4ec8-a88e-523c5a6fda9e, commit ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84.
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