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Domain or Tenant Policy Modification T1484

Tactics: Privilege Escalation, Defense Impairment
Platforms: Windows, Identity Provider
Version: 4.0
Created: 07 March 2019
Last modified: 12 May 2026
Contributor: Obsidian Security

Sub-techniques 233 rules across the family · 13 mapped directly to T1484 · 2 of 2 carry rules

.001Group Policy Modification15 .002Trust Modification5

Adversaries may modify the configuration settings of a domain or identity tenant to evade defenses and/or escalate privileges in centrally managed environments. Such services provide a centralized means of managing identity resources such as devices and accounts, and often include configuration settings that may apply between domains or tenants such as trust relationships, identity syncing, or identity federation.

ReconResource DevInitial AccessExecutionPersistencePriv EscStealthDef ImpairmentCred AccessDiscoveryLateral MoveCollectionC2ExfiltrationImpact

Threat groupsNone recorded

Threat groupsNone recorded · 29% of ATT&CK techniques have none either.

CampaignsNone recorded

CampaignsNone recorded · 54% of ATT&CK techniques have none either.

Tools & malwareNone recorded

Tools & malwareNone recorded · 29% of ATT&CK techniques have none either.

Detection rulesTop 19%

Detection rules81st percentile · 81% of ATT&CK techniques have this many detection rules written or fewer.

Offense vs defense T1484

Is defensive coverage keeping up with adversary use? Eight counts, each ranked against all 697 ATT&CK techniques. Attack sits left, defense right, so a shape leaning left means adversaries are better documented here than defenders are equipped. Hover any spoke for its percentile and the share of techniques that have more. The timeline below shows when each side arrived.

How it got here

Range

Adversary activity (campaign spans) over cumulative rule output. Each source is plotted independently from zero, so neither line includes the other. Campaign dates are year-granularity.

Campaigns · 0Sigma rules (cumulative) · 1Splunk ESCU (cumulative) · 12

first rule: 2022 Q2

Domain or Tenant Policy Modification detection strategy DET0270

MITRE names one behaviour worth catching for this technique and breaks it into 2 analytics, one per platform. Each carries the log sources it needs and the fields you tune per environment.

Detection of Domain or Tenant Policy Modifications via AD and Identity Provider

Enterprise

2 platforms

AN0755 · Windows

Adversary modifies Group Policy Objects (GPOs), domain trust, or directory service objects via GUI, CLI, or programmatic APIs. Behavior includes creation/modification of GPOs, delegation permissions, trust objects, or rogue domain controller registration.

Log sources

The data this analytic draws on. You do not need every component — each one you already collect covers part of it. Each links to its ATT&CK record.

Data component	Name	Channel
Process CreationDC0032	WinEventLog:Sysmon	EventCode=1
File ModificationDC0061	WinEventLog:Security	EventCode=4663, 4670, 4656
Active Directory Object ModificationDC0066	WinEventLog:Security	EventCode=5136

Tunable fields

MITRE calls these the analytic’s mutable elements: the thresholds and filters you set for your own environment.

Field	What you tune
ObjectDN	Filter to specific AD containers (e.g., CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=domain,DC=com) for GPOs.
AttributeModified	Focus on high-risk attributes such as gPCFileSysPath, ntSecurityDescriptor.
TimeWindow	Correlate changes with suspicious process creation or privileged user logon.
UserContext	Alert on unexpected user or service account modifying domain policy.

AN0756 · Identity Provider

Adversary modifies tenant policy through changes to federation configuration, trust settings, or identity provider additions in Microsoft 365/AzureAD via Portal, PowerShell, or Graph API. Includes setting authentication to federated or updating federated domains.

Log sources

The data this analytic draws on. You do not need every component — each one you already collect covers part of it. Each links to its ATT&CK record.

Data component	Name	Channel
User Account AuthenticationDC0002	azure:signinlogs	OperationName=SetDomainAuthentication OR Set-FederatedDomain
Application Log ContentDC0038	m365:unified	Set federation settings on domain\|Set domain authentication\|Add federated identity provider

Tunable fields

MITRE calls these the analytic’s mutable elements: the thresholds and filters you set for your own environment.

Field	What you tune
OperationName	Identify rare modification operations that are not part of standard admin lifecycle.
InitiatedBy	Filter by known administrators or service principals. Flag unknown initiators.
UserAgent	Detect scripted modifications (e.g., PowerShell/Graph API vs Azure Portal).
TimeWindow	Correlate tenant policy changes with new sign-ins or token forgery attempts.

Domain or Tenant Policy Modification detections T1484

13 rules are mapped to this technique. Parent techniques also include their sub-techniques’ rules. Click a slice or key entry to filter the table.

Top 19%of all ATT&CK techniques for number of rules

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