Sigma rule: Number Of Resource Creation Or Deployment Activities

A detection rule from the SigmaHQ repository, shown as its author published it. Dataset version ref-e1a887774dfe, updated 2023-10-11T00:00:00.000Z.

Rule

Title
Number Of Resource Creation Or Deployment Activities
Status
test
Level
medium
Author
sawwinnnaung
Date
2020-05-07
Modified
2023-10-11
File
rules/cloud/azure/activity_logs/azure_creating_number_of_resources_detection.yml
Commit
ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Number of VM creations or deployment activities occur in Azure via the azureactivity log.

Log source

product
azure
service
activitylogs

Detection

keywords:
    - Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/write
    - Microsoft.Resources/deployments/write
condition: keywords

False positives (as the rule lists them)

  • Valid change

Tags

  • attack.privilege-escalation
  • attack.persistence
  • attack.t1098

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

References

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/activity_logs/azure_creating_number_of_resources_detection.yml

Sources and licences

  • SigmaHQ

    "Number Of Resource Creation Or Deployment Activities" by sawwinnnaung (SigmaHQ). Rule: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/cloud/azure/activity_logs/azure_creating_number_of_resources_detection.yml.
    Licensed under the Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/Detection-Rule-License

    Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1

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Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "Sigma rule: Number Of Resource Creation Or Deployment Activities",
entity page, dataset version ref-e1a887774dfe, updated 2023-10-11T00:00:00.000Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/detections/sigma/d2d901db-7a75-45a1-bc39-0cbf00812192 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: SigmaHQ rule d2d901db-7a75-45a1-bc39-0cbf00812192, commit ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84.

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