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SAP BTP - Unaudited custom app with login-only activity
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| Id | 5e8f2a1b-7c3d-4b9e-a6f0-1d2e3c4b5a6f |
| Rulename | SAP BTP - Unaudited custom app with login-only activity |
| Description | Identifies SAP BTP custom applications (CloudFoundry, SAP CAP, etc.) that only produce XSUAA authentication events (TokenIssuedEvent, ClientAuthenticationSuccess) but have not generated any business audit log activity in the past 7 days. This pattern indicates that the application has not implemented audit logging (e.g., missing @AuditLog annotations in CAP or missing audit log service bindings), creating a security blind spot where user actions within the application are invisible to monitoring. The 7-day lookback avoids false positives for properly instrumented apps whose users simply have not performed auditable actions in the current session. Attackers could exploit such unaudited applications to perform malicious operations without detection. |
| Severity | Medium |
| Tactics | DefenseEvasion |
| Techniques | T1562 T1562.008 |
| Required data connectors | SAPBTPAuditEvents |
| Kind | Scheduled |
| Query frequency | 1h |
| Query period | 7d |
| Trigger threshold | 0 |
| Trigger operator | gt |
| Source Uri | https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Solutions/SAP%20BTP/Analytic%20Rules/BTP%20-%20Unaudited%20custom%20app%20with%20login-only%20activity.yaml |
| Version | 1.0.4 |
| Arm template | 5e8f2a1b-7c3d-4b9e-a6f0-1d2e3c4b5a6f.json |
// Lookback period for audit events - a longer window avoids false positives for
// properly instrumented apps where users logged in but haven't performed actions yet
let audit_lookback = ago(7d);
// Known BTP platform service patterns (excluded from detection)
let platform_service_patterns = dynamic([
"app-studio", "auditlog", "cis-local", "service-manager",
"destination-xsappname", "connectivity-proxy", "feature-flags"
]);
// Step 1: From XSUAA TokenIssuedEvent, identify custom apps with interactive user logins
// XSUAA is a shared subaccount service - the client_id in each token identifies the actual app
let app_logins = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL
// Scope logins to the current 1h run cycle (matches queryFrequency)
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| where Category == "audit.security-events"
| extend data_s = tostring(Message.data)
| where data_s has "TokenIssuedEvent"
| extend ParsedData = parse_json(data_s)
// origin field = client_id of the app the token was issued for
| extend ClientId = tostring(ParsedData.origin)
| where ClientId startswith "sb-"
// Parse nested event message for human user and grant type
| extend EventMessage = tostring(ParsedData.message)
| extend GrantType = extract(@'"grant_type"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"', 1, EventMessage)
// Only interactive browser-based logins (not service-to-service tokens)
| where GrantType == "authorization_code"
// Derive app identifiers: sb-<XsAppName>!t<number>
| extend XsAppName = extract(@"^sb-(.+?)!\w+$", 1, ClientId)
| where isnotempty(XsAppName)
// Exclude known platform services
| where not(XsAppName has_any (platform_service_patterns))
// Extract human-readable app name (first segment before subaccount qualifier)
| extend AppName = extract(@"^([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)", 1, XsAppName)
| extend HumanUser = extract(@'"user_name"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"', 1, EventMessage)
| extend IPAddress = tostring(Message.ip);
// Step 2a: Identify apps that have business audit events where the service binding
// identity appears in UserName (e.g. platform-generated audit events)
let audited_apps = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL
| where TimeGenerated > audit_lookback
| where Category !in ("audit.security-events")
| where UserName startswith "sb-"
| extend AuditedAppName = extract(@"^sb-(.+?)!\w+", 1, UserName)
| where isnotempty(AuditedAppName)
| distinct AuditedAppName, Tenant;
// Step 2b: Identify CF app instances that have an audit log service binding.
// When a CAP/custom app binds the audit log service, BTP provisions a
// 'customer-auditlog' service key whose XSUAA token events share the same
// AlsServiceId (CF app GUID) as the app's own login tokens. This gives a
// reliable per-app correlation that works even when the audit log service
// instance is deployed in a different CF space than the app itself.
let audited_app_instances = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL
| where TimeGenerated > audit_lookback
| where Category == "audit.security-events"
| where UserName contains "customer-auditlog"
| where isnotempty(AlsServiceId)
| distinct AlsServiceId, Tenant;
// Step 3: Find custom apps with logins but no business audit trail
app_logins
| join kind=leftanti (audited_apps | project XsAppName = AuditedAppName, Tenant) on XsAppName, Tenant
| join kind=leftanti (audited_app_instances) on AlsServiceId, Tenant
| summarize
LoginCount = count(),
FirstLogin = min(TimeGenerated),
LastLogin = max(TimeGenerated),
Users = make_set(HumanUser, 100),
IPs = make_set(IPAddress, 100),
AppName = take_any(AppName),
SubaccountName = take_any(SubaccountName),
OrgId = take_any(OrgId),
SpaceId = take_any(SpaceId)
by XsAppName, ClientId, Tenant
| extend Users = set_difference(Users, dynamic([""]))
| project
FirstLogin,
LastLogin,
AppName,
XsAppName,
ClientId,
SubaccountName,
Tenant,
OrgId,
SpaceId,
LoginCount,
Users,
IPs,
CloudApp = "SAP BTP"
version: 1.0.4
OriginalUri: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Solutions/SAP%20BTP/Analytic%20Rules/BTP%20-%20Unaudited%20custom%20app%20with%20login-only%20activity.yaml
triggerThreshold: 0
requiredDataConnectors:
- dataTypes:
- SAPBTPAuditLog_CL
connectorId: SAPBTPAuditEvents
tactics:
- DefenseEvasion
customDetails:
AppName: AppName
LoginCount: LoginCount
IPs: IPs
SubaccountName: SubaccountName
OrgId: OrgId
SpaceId: SpaceId
ClientId: ClientId
XsAppName: XsAppName
Users: Users
Tenant: Tenant
relevantTechniques:
- T1562
- T1562.008
kind: Scheduled
alertDetailsOverride:
alertDescriptionFormat: |
The custom app '{{AppName}}' ({{XsAppName}}) in subaccount '{{SubaccountName}}' produced only
XSUAA authentication events but no business audit trail within the past 7 days.
This indicates the app has not implemented audit logging, creating a security blind spot
where user actions within the application are invisible to Microsoft Sentinel.
Recommended actions:
1. Review the application's audit log implementation
2. Add the audit log service binding in SAP BTP cockpit
3. For CAP apps, implement @AuditLog annotations on sensitive entities and services
4. Investigate user activity through alternative logs (application logs, HTTP access logs)
alertDisplayNameFormat: "SAP BTP: Unaudited custom app '{{AppName}}' - login-only activity detected"
entityMappings:
- fieldMappings:
- identifier: Name
columnName: CloudApp
entityType: CloudApplication
description: |
Identifies SAP BTP custom applications (CloudFoundry, SAP CAP, etc.) that only produce
XSUAA authentication events (TokenIssuedEvent, ClientAuthenticationSuccess) but have not
generated any business audit log activity in the past 7 days. This pattern indicates that
the application has not implemented audit logging (e.g., missing @AuditLog annotations in
CAP or missing audit log service bindings), creating a security blind spot where user
actions within the application are invisible to monitoring. The 7-day lookback avoids
false positives for properly instrumented apps whose users simply have not performed
auditable actions in the current session. Attackers could exploit such unaudited
applications to perform malicious operations without detection.
triggerOperator: gt
status: Available
queryFrequency: 1h
id: 5e8f2a1b-7c3d-4b9e-a6f0-1d2e3c4b5a6f
name: SAP BTP - Unaudited custom app with login-only activity
severity: Medium
query: |
// Lookback period for audit events - a longer window avoids false positives for
// properly instrumented apps where users logged in but haven't performed actions yet
let audit_lookback = ago(7d);
// Known BTP platform service patterns (excluded from detection)
let platform_service_patterns = dynamic([
"app-studio", "auditlog", "cis-local", "service-manager",
"destination-xsappname", "connectivity-proxy", "feature-flags"
]);
// Step 1: From XSUAA TokenIssuedEvent, identify custom apps with interactive user logins
// XSUAA is a shared subaccount service - the client_id in each token identifies the actual app
let app_logins = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL
// Scope logins to the current 1h run cycle (matches queryFrequency)
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| where Category == "audit.security-events"
| extend data_s = tostring(Message.data)
| where data_s has "TokenIssuedEvent"
| extend ParsedData = parse_json(data_s)
// origin field = client_id of the app the token was issued for
| extend ClientId = tostring(ParsedData.origin)
| where ClientId startswith "sb-"
// Parse nested event message for human user and grant type
| extend EventMessage = tostring(ParsedData.message)
| extend GrantType = extract(@'"grant_type"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"', 1, EventMessage)
// Only interactive browser-based logins (not service-to-service tokens)
| where GrantType == "authorization_code"
// Derive app identifiers: sb-<XsAppName>!t<number>
| extend XsAppName = extract(@"^sb-(.+?)!\w+$", 1, ClientId)
| where isnotempty(XsAppName)
// Exclude known platform services
| where not(XsAppName has_any (platform_service_patterns))
// Extract human-readable app name (first segment before subaccount qualifier)
| extend AppName = extract(@"^([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)", 1, XsAppName)
| extend HumanUser = extract(@'"user_name"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"', 1, EventMessage)
| extend IPAddress = tostring(Message.ip);
// Step 2a: Identify apps that have business audit events where the service binding
// identity appears in UserName (e.g. platform-generated audit events)
let audited_apps = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL
| where TimeGenerated > audit_lookback
| where Category !in ("audit.security-events")
| where UserName startswith "sb-"
| extend AuditedAppName = extract(@"^sb-(.+?)!\w+", 1, UserName)
| where isnotempty(AuditedAppName)
| distinct AuditedAppName, Tenant;
// Step 2b: Identify CF app instances that have an audit log service binding.
// When a CAP/custom app binds the audit log service, BTP provisions a
// 'customer-auditlog' service key whose XSUAA token events share the same
// AlsServiceId (CF app GUID) as the app's own login tokens. This gives a
// reliable per-app correlation that works even when the audit log service
// instance is deployed in a different CF space than the app itself.
let audited_app_instances = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL
| where TimeGenerated > audit_lookback
| where Category == "audit.security-events"
| where UserName contains "customer-auditlog"
| where isnotempty(AlsServiceId)
| distinct AlsServiceId, Tenant;
// Step 3: Find custom apps with logins but no business audit trail
app_logins
| join kind=leftanti (audited_apps | project XsAppName = AuditedAppName, Tenant) on XsAppName, Tenant
| join kind=leftanti (audited_app_instances) on AlsServiceId, Tenant
| summarize
LoginCount = count(),
FirstLogin = min(TimeGenerated),
LastLogin = max(TimeGenerated),
Users = make_set(HumanUser, 100),
IPs = make_set(IPAddress, 100),
AppName = take_any(AppName),
SubaccountName = take_any(SubaccountName),
OrgId = take_any(OrgId),
SpaceId = take_any(SpaceId)
by XsAppName, ClientId, Tenant
| extend Users = set_difference(Users, dynamic([""]))
| project
FirstLogin,
LastLogin,
AppName,
XsAppName,
ClientId,
SubaccountName,
Tenant,
OrgId,
SpaceId,
LoginCount,
Users,
IPs,
CloudApp = "SAP BTP"
queryPeriod: 7d
eventGroupingSettings:
aggregationKind: AlertPerResult
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"workspace": {
"type": "String"
}
},
"resources": [
{
"apiVersion": "2024-01-01-preview",
"id": "[concat(resourceId('Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/providers', parameters('workspace'), 'Microsoft.SecurityInsights'),'/alertRules/5e8f2a1b-7c3d-4b9e-a6f0-1d2e3c4b5a6f')]",
"kind": "Scheduled",
"name": "[concat(parameters('workspace'),'/Microsoft.SecurityInsights/5e8f2a1b-7c3d-4b9e-a6f0-1d2e3c4b5a6f')]",
"properties": {
"alertDetailsOverride": {
"alertDescriptionFormat": "The custom app '{{AppName}}' ({{XsAppName}}) in subaccount '{{SubaccountName}}' produced only\nXSUAA authentication events but no business audit trail within the past 7 days.\n\nThis indicates the app has not implemented audit logging, creating a security blind spot\nwhere user actions within the application are invisible to Microsoft Sentinel.\n\nRecommended actions:\n1. Review the application's audit log implementation\n2. Add the audit log service binding in SAP BTP cockpit\n3. For CAP apps, implement @AuditLog annotations on sensitive entities and services\n4. Investigate user activity through alternative logs (application logs, HTTP access logs)\n",
"alertDisplayNameFormat": "SAP BTP: Unaudited custom app '{{AppName}}' - login-only activity detected"
},
"alertRuleTemplateName": "5e8f2a1b-7c3d-4b9e-a6f0-1d2e3c4b5a6f",
"customDetails": {
"AppName": "AppName",
"ClientId": "ClientId",
"IPs": "IPs",
"LoginCount": "LoginCount",
"OrgId": "OrgId",
"SpaceId": "SpaceId",
"SubaccountName": "SubaccountName",
"Tenant": "Tenant",
"Users": "Users",
"XsAppName": "XsAppName"
},
"description": "Identifies SAP BTP custom applications (CloudFoundry, SAP CAP, etc.) that only produce\nXSUAA authentication events (TokenIssuedEvent, ClientAuthenticationSuccess) but have not\ngenerated any business audit log activity in the past 7 days. This pattern indicates that\nthe application has not implemented audit logging (e.g., missing @AuditLog annotations in\nCAP or missing audit log service bindings), creating a security blind spot where user\nactions within the application are invisible to monitoring. The 7-day lookback avoids\nfalse positives for properly instrumented apps whose users simply have not performed\nauditable actions in the current session. Attackers could exploit such unaudited\napplications to perform malicious operations without detection.\n",
"displayName": "SAP BTP - Unaudited custom app with login-only activity",
"enabled": true,
"entityMappings": [
{
"entityType": "CloudApplication",
"fieldMappings": [
{
"columnName": "CloudApp",
"identifier": "Name"
}
]
}
],
"eventGroupingSettings": {
"aggregationKind": "AlertPerResult"
},
"OriginalUri": "https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Solutions/SAP%20BTP/Analytic%20Rules/BTP%20-%20Unaudited%20custom%20app%20with%20login-only%20activity.yaml",
"query": "// Lookback period for audit events - a longer window avoids false positives for\n// properly instrumented apps where users logged in but haven't performed actions yet\nlet audit_lookback = ago(7d);\n// Known BTP platform service patterns (excluded from detection)\nlet platform_service_patterns = dynamic([\n \"app-studio\", \"auditlog\", \"cis-local\", \"service-manager\",\n \"destination-xsappname\", \"connectivity-proxy\", \"feature-flags\"\n]);\n// Step 1: From XSUAA TokenIssuedEvent, identify custom apps with interactive user logins\n// XSUAA is a shared subaccount service - the client_id in each token identifies the actual app\nlet app_logins = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL\n // Scope logins to the current 1h run cycle (matches queryFrequency)\n | where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)\n | where Category == \"audit.security-events\"\n | extend data_s = tostring(Message.data)\n | where data_s has \"TokenIssuedEvent\"\n | extend ParsedData = parse_json(data_s)\n // origin field = client_id of the app the token was issued for\n | extend ClientId = tostring(ParsedData.origin)\n | where ClientId startswith \"sb-\"\n // Parse nested event message for human user and grant type\n | extend EventMessage = tostring(ParsedData.message)\n | extend GrantType = extract(@'\"grant_type\"\\s*:\\s*\"([^\"]+)\"', 1, EventMessage)\n // Only interactive browser-based logins (not service-to-service tokens)\n | where GrantType == \"authorization_code\"\n // Derive app identifiers: sb-<XsAppName>!t<number>\n | extend XsAppName = extract(@\"^sb-(.+?)!\\w+$\", 1, ClientId)\n | where isnotempty(XsAppName)\n // Exclude known platform services\n | where not(XsAppName has_any (platform_service_patterns))\n // Extract human-readable app name (first segment before subaccount qualifier)\n | extend AppName = extract(@\"^([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\", 1, XsAppName)\n | extend HumanUser = extract(@'\"user_name\"\\s*:\\s*\"([^\"]+)\"', 1, EventMessage)\n | extend IPAddress = tostring(Message.ip);\n// Step 2a: Identify apps that have business audit events where the service binding\n// identity appears in UserName (e.g. platform-generated audit events)\nlet audited_apps = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL\n | where TimeGenerated > audit_lookback\n | where Category !in (\"audit.security-events\")\n | where UserName startswith \"sb-\"\n | extend AuditedAppName = extract(@\"^sb-(.+?)!\\w+\", 1, UserName)\n | where isnotempty(AuditedAppName)\n | distinct AuditedAppName, Tenant;\n// Step 2b: Identify CF app instances that have an audit log service binding.\n// When a CAP/custom app binds the audit log service, BTP provisions a\n// 'customer-auditlog' service key whose XSUAA token events share the same\n// AlsServiceId (CF app GUID) as the app's own login tokens. This gives a\n// reliable per-app correlation that works even when the audit log service\n// instance is deployed in a different CF space than the app itself.\nlet audited_app_instances = SAPBTPAuditLog_CL\n | where TimeGenerated > audit_lookback\n | where Category == \"audit.security-events\"\n | where UserName contains \"customer-auditlog\"\n | where isnotempty(AlsServiceId)\n | distinct AlsServiceId, Tenant;\n// Step 3: Find custom apps with logins but no business audit trail\napp_logins\n| join kind=leftanti (audited_apps | project XsAppName = AuditedAppName, Tenant) on XsAppName, Tenant\n| join kind=leftanti (audited_app_instances) on AlsServiceId, Tenant\n| summarize\n LoginCount = count(),\n FirstLogin = min(TimeGenerated),\n LastLogin = max(TimeGenerated),\n Users = make_set(HumanUser, 100),\n IPs = make_set(IPAddress, 100),\n AppName = take_any(AppName),\n SubaccountName = take_any(SubaccountName),\n OrgId = take_any(OrgId),\n SpaceId = take_any(SpaceId)\n by XsAppName, ClientId, Tenant\n| extend Users = set_difference(Users, dynamic([\"\"]))\n| project\n FirstLogin,\n LastLogin,\n AppName,\n XsAppName,\n ClientId,\n SubaccountName,\n Tenant,\n OrgId,\n SpaceId,\n LoginCount,\n Users,\n IPs,\n CloudApp = \"SAP BTP\"\n",
"queryFrequency": "PT1H",
"queryPeriod": "P7D",
"severity": "Medium",
"status": "Available",
"subTechniques": [
"T1562.008"
],
"suppressionDuration": "PT1H",
"suppressionEnabled": false,
"tactics": [
"DefenseEvasion"
],
"techniques": [
"T1562"
],
"templateVersion": "1.0.4",
"triggerOperator": "GreaterThan",
"triggerThreshold": 0
},
"type": "Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/providers/alertRules"
}
]
}