Elastic Security Detection Rules

User Added to the Admin Group

Last updated 13 days ago on 2024-12-09
Created 3 months ago on 2024-09-12

About

Identifies users being added to the admin group. This could be an indication of privilege escalation activity.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Privilege EscalationData Source: Jamf Protect
Severity
low
Risk Score
21
MITRE ATT&CK™

Privilege Escalation (TA0004)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Valid Accounts (T1078)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-jamf_protect*
Related Integrations

jamf_protect(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
configuration where host.os.type == "macos" and event.type == "change" and
  event.action == "od_group_add" and group.name:"admin"

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect User Added to the Admin Group in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).