FortiGate: Admin User Added via Console

Rule ID

PH_RULE_FGT_Admin_User_Added_Console

Default Status

Enabled

Description

FortiOS Admin has created a new admin user account via console. This triggers due to account creations via console session

Severity

MITRE ATT&CK® Tactics

Persistence

Persistence consists of techniques that adversaries use to keep access to systems across restarts, changed credentials, and other interruptions that could cut off their access. Techniques used for persistence include any access, action, or configuration changes that let them maintain their foothold on systems, such as replacing or hijacking legitimate code or adding startup code.

https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003

MITRE ATT&CK® Techniques

T1136.001

Create Account: Local Account

Adversaries may create a local account to maintain access to victim systems. Local accounts are those configured by an organization for use by users, remote support, services, or for administration on a single system or service. With a sufficient level of access, the net user /add command can be used to create a local account. Such accounts may be used to establish secondary credentialed access that do not require persistent remote access tools to be deployed on the system.

https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1136/001

Impacts

Network

Data Source

FortiGate via Syslog

Detection

Correlation

Remediation Guidance

Make sure it is an authorized change

Time Window

If the following pattern or patterns match an ingested event within the given time window in seconds, trigger an incident.

300 seconds

Trigger Conditions

If the following defined pattern/s occur within a 300 second time window.

user_add

SubPattern Definitions

SubPattern Name: user_add

This is the named definition of the event query, this is important if multiple subpatterns are defined to distinguish them.

SubPattern Query

This is the query logic that matches incoming events

eventType = "FortiGate-event-admin-add" AND srcIpAddr IS NULL AND loginType="console"

Group by Attributes

This defines how matching events are aggregated, only events with the same matching attribute values are grouped into one unique incident ID

user, targetUser, reptDevIpAddr

Aggregate Constraint

This is most typically a numerical constraint that defines when the rule should trigger an incident

COUNT(*) >= 1

Incident Attribute Mapping

This section defines which fields in matching raw events should be mapped to the incident attributes in the resulting incident.

The available raw event attributes to map are limited to the group by attributes and the aggregate event constraint fields for each subpattern

 user=user_add.user,
targetUser=user_add.targetUser,
hostIpAddr=user_add.reptDevIpAddr,
incidentCount=user_add.COUNT(*)

FortiSIEM Rules