Anomalous user account change

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About the rule

Rule Type

Advanced

Rule Description

A user account is created and deleted within a short window of time.

Severity

Critical

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Account created" Action2: actionname = "Account deleted" AND HOSTTYPE = Action1.HOSTTYPE AND TARGETUSER = Action1.TARGETUSER sequence:Action1 followedby Action2 within 60m select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.HOSTTYPE,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.TARGETUSER,Action2.HOSTNAME,Action2.MESSAGE,Action2.HOSTTYPE,Action2.USERNAME,Action2.TARGETUSER

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Miscellaneous