Data Source: Azure Active Directory Add member to role

Created: 2024-05-22

Last Updated: 2026-10-14

ID: 1660d196-127f-4678-81b2-472d51711b07

Author: Patrick Bareiss, Splunk

Description

Logs the addition of a member to a directory role in Azure Active Directory, including details about the role, the member added, and the user or process performing the action.

Details

Property	Value
Source	`Azure AD`
Sourcetype	`azure:monitor:aad`
Separator	operationName

Name ▲▼	Technique ▲▼	Type ▲▼
Azure AD Privileged Authentication Administrator Role Assigned	Security Account Manager	TTP
Azure AD Privileged Role Assigned	Additional Cloud Roles	TTP
Azure AD Application Administrator Role Assigned	Additional Cloud Roles	TTP
Azure AD Global Administrator Role Assigned	Additional Cloud Roles	TTP
Azure AD Privileged Role Assigned to Service Principal	Additional Cloud Roles	TTP

Supported Apps

Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services (version 6.3.3)

Event Fields

+ Fields

  <span class="pill kill-chain">_time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">action</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">additional_details</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">additional_details_name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">additional_details_value</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">callerIpAddress</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">category</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">change_type</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">command</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">correlationId</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">dataset_name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_hour</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_mday</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_minute</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_month</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_second</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_wday</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_year</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">date_zone</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">dest</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">dest_type</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">durationMs</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">dvc</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">eventtype</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">host</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">index</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">Level</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">linecount</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">object</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">object_attrs</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">object_category</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">object_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">operationName</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">operationVersion</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">path_from_resourceId</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.activityDateTime</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.activityDisplayName</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.additionalDetails{}.key</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.additionalDetails{}.value</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.category</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.correlationId</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.initiatedBy.user.displayName</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.initiatedBy.user.id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.initiatedBy.user.ipAddress</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.initiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.loggedByService</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.operationType</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.result</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.resultReason</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.targetResources{}.displayName</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.targetResources{}.id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.targetResources{}.modifiedProperties{}.displayName</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.targetResources{}.modifiedProperties{}.newValue</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.targetResources{}.modifiedProperties{}.oldValue</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.targetResources{}.type</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.targetResources{}.userPrincipalName</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">properties.userAgent</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">punct</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">resourceId</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">result</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">result_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">resultSignature</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">signature</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">source</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">sourcetype</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">splunk_server</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">src</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">src_ip</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">src_user_type</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">status</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">tag</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">tag::eventtype</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">tenantId</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">timeendpos</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">timestartpos</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">user</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">user_agent</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">user_name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">user_type</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">vendor_account</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">vendor_product</span>
  
</div>

Example Log

1{"time": "2023-06-27T22:29:52.2296810Z", "resourceId": "/tenants/fc69e276-e9e8-4af9-9002-1e410d77244e/providers/Microsoft.aadiam", "operationName": "Add member to role", "operationVersion": "1.0", "category": "AuditLogs", "tenantId": "fc69e276-e9e8-4af9-9002-1e410d77244e", "resultSignature": "None", "durationMs": 0, "callerIpAddress": "2601:646:a000:200:944:c9d7:a3bb:de44", "correlationId": "59208262-ea89-4d82-a16b-00b81c111a38", "Level": 4, "properties": {"id": "Directory_59208262-ea89-4d82-a16b-00b81c111a38_R63ZQ_355377136", "category": "RoleManagement", "correlationId": "59208262-ea89-4d82-a16b-00b81c111a38", "result": "success", "resultReason": "", "activityDisplayName": "Add member to role", "activityDateTime": "2023-06-27T22:29:52.229681+00:00", "loggedByService": "Core Directory", "operationType": "Assign", "userAgent": null, "initiatedBy": {"user": {"id": "728989f4-eb3d-45c2-8741-2f2af4e485ce", "displayName": null, "userPrincipalName": "dummyr@splunkresearch.com", "ipAddress": "2601:646:a000:200:944:c9d7:a3bb:de44", "roles": []}}, "targetResources": [{"id": "99c677b8-a4ae-478c-9ccc-57043a2843a5", "displayName": null, "type": "User", "userPrincipalName": "Ava.Brown@splunkresearch.com", "modifiedProperties": [{"displayName": "Role.ObjectID", "oldValue": null, "newValue": "\"38bf5baf-7ec7-4bc2-8920-6d4044da12c2\""}, {"displayName": "Role.DisplayName", "oldValue": null, "newValue": "\"Application Administrator\""}, {"displayName": "Role.TemplateId", "oldValue": null, "newValue": "\"9b895d92-2cd3-44c7-9d02-a6ac2d5ea5c3\""}, {"displayName": "Role.WellKnownObjectName", "oldValue": null, "newValue": "\"UserAccountAdmins\""}], "administrativeUnits": []}, {"id": "38bf5baf-7ec7-4bc2-8920-6d4044da12c2", "displayName": null, "type": "Role", "modifiedProperties": [], "administrativeUnits": []}], "additionalDetails": []}}

Required Output Fields

dest
user
src
vendor_account
vendor_product

Source: GitHub | Version: 4