name: Azure Active Directory Update application
id: 2c08188a-ba25-496e-87c7-803cf28b6c90
version: 3
creation_date: '2024-05-22'
modification_date: '2026-05-13'
author: Patrick Bareiss, Splunk
description: Logs an event when an application in Azure Active Directory is updated, such as changes to its settings or permissions.
mitre_components:
    - Service Modification
    - User Account Modification
    - Cloud Service Modification
source: Azure AD
sourcetype: azure:monitor:aad
separator: operationName
separator_value: Update application
supported_TA:
    - name: Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services
      url: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3110
      version: 6.1.1
fields:
    - _time
    - Level
    - category
    - correlationId
    - date_hour
    - date_mday
    - date_minute
    - date_month
    - date_second
    - date_wday
    - date_year
    - date_zone
    - durationMs
    - host
    - index
    - linecount
    - operationName
    - operationVersion
    - properties.activityDateTime
    - properties.activityDisplayName
    - properties.additionalDetails{}.key
    - properties.additionalDetails{}.value
    - properties.category
    - properties.correlationId
    - properties.id
    - properties.initiatedBy.user.displayName
    - properties.initiatedBy.user.id
    - properties.initiatedBy.user.ipAddress
    - properties.initiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName
    - properties.loggedByService
    - properties.operationType
    - properties.result
    - properties.resultReason
    - properties.targetResources{}.displayName
    - properties.targetResources{}.id
    - properties.targetResources{}.modifiedProperties{}.displayName
    - properties.targetResources{}.modifiedProperties{}.newValue
    - properties.targetResources{}.modifiedProperties{}.oldValue
    - properties.targetResources{}.type
    - properties.userAgent
    - punct
    - resourceId
    - resultSignature
    - source
    - sourcetype
    - splunk_server
    - tenantId
    - time
    - timeendpos
    - timestartpos
output_fields:
    - dest
    - user
    - src
    - vendor_account
    - vendor_product
example_log: '{"time": "2024-01-29T21:31:03.0102031Z", "resourceId": "/tenants/75243ab2-44f8-435c-a7a6-b479385df6d4/providers/Microsoft.aadiam", "operationName": "Update application", "operationVersion": "1.0", "category": "AuditLogs", "tenantId": "75243ab2-44f8-435c-a7a6-b479385df6d4", "resultSignature": "None", "durationMs": 0, "correlationId": "a5396d2b-fcf6-41e7-9219-c6239f1298e3", "Level": 4, "properties": {"id": "Directory_a5396d2b-fcf6-41e7-9219-c6239f1298e3_DGBDP_1548236", "category": "ApplicationManagement", "correlationId": "a5396d2b-fcf6-41e7-9219-c6239f1298e3", "result": "success", "resultReason": "", "activityDisplayName": "Update application", "activityDateTime": "2024-01-29T21:31:03.0102031+00:00", "loggedByService": "Core Directory", "operationType": "Update", "userAgent": null, "initiatedBy": {"user": {"id": "e4c722ac-3b83-478d-8f52-c388885dc30f", "displayName": null, "userPrincipalName": "user30@splunkresearch.onmicrosoft.com", "ipAddress": "", "roles": []}}, "targetResources": [{"id": "75924835-d844-4947-96ba-18074e997386", "displayName": "MaliciousApp", "type": "Application", "modifiedProperties": [{"displayName": "RequiredResourceAccess", "oldValue": "[{\"ResourceAppId\":\"00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000\",\"RequiredAppPermissions\":[{\"EntitlementId\":\"570282fd-fa5c-430d-a7fd-fc8dc98a9dca\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":false,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[20]},{\"EntitlementId\":\"7427e0e9-2fba-42fe-b0c0-848c9e6a8182\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":false,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[20]},{\"EntitlementId\":\"e1fe6dd8-ba31-4d61-89e7-88639da4683d\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":false,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[20]},{\"EntitlementId\":\"810c84a8-4a9e-49e6-bf7d-12d183f40d01\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":true,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[]}],\"EncodingVersion\":1}]", "newValue": "[{\"ResourceAppId\":\"00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000\",\"RequiredAppPermissions\":[{\"EntitlementId\":\"570282fd-fa5c-430d-a7fd-fc8dc98a9dca\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":false,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[20]},{\"EntitlementId\":\"7427e0e9-2fba-42fe-b0c0-848c9e6a8182\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":false,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[20]},{\"EntitlementId\":\"e1fe6dd8-ba31-4d61-89e7-88639da4683d\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":false,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[20]},{\"EntitlementId\":\"810c84a8-4a9e-49e6-bf7d-12d183f40d01\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":true,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[]}],\"EncodingVersion\":1},{\"ResourceAppId\":\"00000002-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000\",\"RequiredAppPermissions\":[{\"EntitlementId\":\"dc890d15-9560-4a4c-9b7f-a736ec74ec40\",\"DirectAccessGrant\":true,\"ImpersonationAccessGrants\":[]}],\"EncodingVersion\":1}]"}, {"displayName": "Included Updated Properties", "oldValue": null, "newValue": "\"RequiredResourceAccess\""}], "administrativeUnits": []}], "additionalDetails": [{"key": "User-Agent", "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}, {"key": "AppId", "value": "867f0d29-0eab-4017-b691-c4713cc7d7b0"}]}}'