Sigma rule: Privilege Role Sign-In Outside Expected Controls

Rule

Title

Privilege Role Sign-In Outside Expected Controls

Status

test

Level

high

Author

Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Yochana Henderson, '@Yochana-H'

Date

2022-08-11

Modified

2023-12-15

File

rules-placeholder/cloud/azure/signin_logs/azure_privileged_account_sigin_expected_controls.yml

Commit

ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Detects failed sign-in due to user not meeting expected controls for adminitrators

Log source

product

azure

service

signinlogs

Detection

# You have to tune the rule for your environment before use it
selection:
    # Countries you do NOT operate out of e,g GB, use list for mulitple
    location|expand: '%UnLegitCountries%'
    callerIpAddress|expand: '%UnApprovedIp%'
    # unapproved browser, operating system
    properties.deviceDetail.deviceId|expand: '%UnApprovedDevice%'
filter_main_success:
    resultType: 0
condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*

False positives (as the rule lists them)

• Unknown

Tags

• attack.initial-access
• attack.persistence
• attack.privilege-escalation
• attack.stealth
• attack.t1078

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

• T1078

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-privileged-accounts#things-to-monitor

Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules-placeholder/cloud/azure/signin_logs/azure_privileged_account_sigin_expected_controls.yml