LocalAdminAdditions.md

Local Administrator Additions

Query Information

MITRE ATT&CK Technique(s)

Technique ID	Title	Link
T1136.001	Create Account: Local Account	https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1136/001/

Description

Adversaries may create a local accounts to maintain access to victim systems. This query lists all the locad admins that have been added in the seletect timeframe per device.

Risk

Local Admin accounts have high priviliges on and can should be limited.

References

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/access-control/local-accounts#administrator

Defender XDR

DeviceEvents
| where ActionType == "UserAccountAddedToLocalGroup"
| extend Details = parse_json(AdditionalFields)
| extend
    GroupName = tostring(Details.GroupName),
    GroupDomainName = tostring(Details.GroupDomainName),
    GroupSid = tostring(Details.GroupSid)
// Filter Local Administrators
| where GroupSid == "S-1-5-32-544"
| summarize LocalAdmins = make_set(AccountSid) by DeviceName
| extend TotalLocalAdmins = array_length(LocalAdmins)
| sort by TotalLocalAdmins

Sentinel

DeviceEvents
| where ActionType == "UserAccountAddedToLocalGroup"
| extend Details = parse_json(AdditionalFields)
| extend
    GroupName = tostring(Details.GroupName),
    GroupDomainName = tostring(Details.GroupDomainName),
    GroupSid = tostring(Details.GroupSid)
// Filter Local Administrators
| where GroupSid == "S-1-5-32-544"
| summarize LocalAdmins = make_set(AccountSid) by DeviceName
| extend TotalLocalAdmins = array_length(LocalAdmins)
| sort by TotalLocalAdmins