name: Microsoft Intune Mobile Apps
id: 98e6b389-2806-4426-a580-8a92cb0d9710
version: 5
creation_date: '2025-01-06'
modification_date: '2026-05-13'
author: Dean Luxton
status: experimental
type: Hunting
description: |
    Microsoft Intune supports deploying packaged applications to support software deployment, this functionality can also be abused for deploying malicious payloads to intune managed devices.
    This detection identifies when a new packaged application has been added, updated or deleted.
data_source:
    - Azure Monitor Activity
search: |
    `azure_monitor_activity` operationName="*MobileApp*"
    | rename identity as user, properties.TargetObjectIds{} as TargetObjectId, properties.TargetDisplayNames{} as TargetDisplayName, properties.Actor.IsDelegatedAdmin as user_isDelegatedAdmin
    | rex field="operationName" "^(?P<action>\w+)\s" | replace "Patch" with "updated", "Create" with "created", "Delete", with "deleted", "assign", with "assigned" IN action
    | table _time operationName action user user_type user_isDelegatedAdmin TargetDisplayName TargetObjectId status tenantId correlationId
    | `microsoft_intune_mobile_apps_filter`
how_to_implement: |
    The Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services add-on is required to ingest In-Tune audit logs via Azure EventHub.
    To configure this logging, visit Intune > Tenant administration > Diagnostic settings > Add diagnostic settings & send events to the activity audit event hub.
    Deploy as a risk based alerting rule for quick deployment or perform baselining & tune accordingly.
known_false_positives: Legitimate adminstrative usage of this functionality will trigger this detection.
references:
    - https://posts.specterops.io/death-from-above-lateral-movement-from-azure-to-on-prem-ad-d18cb3959d4d
    - https://securityintelligence.com/x-force/detecting-intune-lateral-movement/
    - https://posts.specterops.io/maestro-9ed71d38d546
analytic_story:
    - Azure Active Directory Account Takeover
asset_type: Azure Tenant
mitre_attack_id:
    - T1072
    - T1021.007
    - T1202
    - T1105
product:
    - Splunk Enterprise
    - Splunk Enterprise Security
    - Splunk Cloud
category: cloud
security_domain: audit