Service Principal Assigned Privileged Role

AuditLogs
  | where OperationName has_all ("member to role", "add")
  | where Result =~ "Success"
  | extend type_ = tostring(TargetResources[0].type)
  | where type_ =~ "ServicePrincipal"
  | where isnotempty(TargetResources)
  | extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
  | extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
  | extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
  | extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
  | extend InitiatingIPAddress = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress)
  | extend InitiatedBy = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatingUserPrincipalName),InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAppName))
  | extend ServicePrincipalName = tostring(TargetResources[0].displayName)
  | extend ServicePrincipalId = tostring(TargetResources[0].id)
  | mv-expand TargetResources[0].modifiedProperties
  | extend TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties = columnifexists("TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties", '')
  | where isnotempty(TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties)
  | extend displayName = tostring(TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties.displayName), newValue = tostring(parse_json(tostring(TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties.newValue)))
  | where displayName == "Role.DisplayName" and newValue contains "admin"
  | extend InitiatingAccountName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0]), InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1])
  | extend TargetRole = newValue
  | project-reorder TimeGenerated, ServicePrincipalName, ServicePrincipalId, InitiatedBy, TargetRole, InitiatingIPAddress

description: |
  'Detects a privileged role being added to a Service Principal.
    Ensure that any assignment to a Service Principal is valid and appropriate - Service Principals should not be assigned to very highly privileged roles such as Global Admin.
    Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-privileged-accounts#changes-to-privileged-accounts'  
kind: Scheduled
tactics:
- PrivilegeEscalation
requiredDataConnectors:
- connectorId: AzureActiveDirectory
  dataTypes:
  - AuditLogs
OriginalUri: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Detections/AuditLogs/ServicePrincipalAssignedPrivilegedRole.yaml
severity: Medium
name: Service Principal Assigned Privileged Role
metadata:
  support:
    tier: Community
  author:
    name: Microsoft Security Research
  categories:
    domains:
    - Security - Others
    - Identity
  source:
    kind: Community
triggerThreshold: 0
queryPeriod: 1d
query: |
  AuditLogs
    | where OperationName has_all ("member to role", "add")
    | where Result =~ "Success"
    | extend type_ = tostring(TargetResources[0].type)
    | where type_ =~ "ServicePrincipal"
    | where isnotempty(TargetResources)
    | extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
    | extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
    | extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
    | extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
    | extend InitiatingIPAddress = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress)
    | extend InitiatedBy = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatingUserPrincipalName),InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAppName))
    | extend ServicePrincipalName = tostring(TargetResources[0].displayName)
    | extend ServicePrincipalId = tostring(TargetResources[0].id)
    | mv-expand TargetResources[0].modifiedProperties
    | extend TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties = columnifexists("TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties", '')
    | where isnotempty(TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties)
    | extend displayName = tostring(TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties.displayName), newValue = tostring(parse_json(tostring(TargetResources_0_modifiedProperties.newValue)))
    | where displayName == "Role.DisplayName" and newValue contains "admin"
    | extend InitiatingAccountName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0]), InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1])
    | extend TargetRole = newValue
    | project-reorder TimeGenerated, ServicePrincipalName, ServicePrincipalId, InitiatedBy, TargetRole, InitiatingIPAddress  
relevantTechniques:
- T1078.004
id: 84cccc86-5c11-4b3a-aca6-7c8f738ed0f7
queryFrequency: 1d
entityMappings:
- entityType: Account
  fieldMappings:
  - columnName: InitiatingAppName
    identifier: Name
  - columnName: InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId
    identifier: AadUserId
- entityType: Account
  fieldMappings:
  - columnName: InitiatingUserPrincipalName
    identifier: FullName
  - columnName: InitiatingAccountName
    identifier: Name
  - columnName: InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix
    identifier: UPNSuffix
- entityType: Account
  fieldMappings:
  - columnName: InitiatingAadUserId
    identifier: AadUserId
- entityType: Account
  fieldMappings:
  - columnName: ServicePrincipalName
    identifier: Name
  - columnName: ServicePrincipalId
    identifier: AadUserId
- entityType: IP
  fieldMappings:
  - columnName: InitiatingIPAddress
    identifier: Address
triggerOperator: gt
version: 1.1.1
tags:
- AADSecOpsGuide