TA0004 · PRIVILEGE ESCALATION
Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
Group Policy and tenant-level trust changes that grant the adversary durable elevated rights.
Detect it with
GPO modifications outside change windows; new federated trust or domain added to the tenant.
Why it matters on shift
Domain or Tenant Policy Modification is one of the concrete ways adversaries achieve privilege escalation. Recognising it in telemetry lets you name the technique in your ticket and pivot to what came before and after.
What to look for next
After privilege escalation, the next tactic is usually Defense Evasion. Search your telemetry for the transition before closing the ticket.
2 sub-techniques
How it shows up in practice
- T1484.001
Group Policy Modification
Adversaries may modify Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to subvert the intended discretionary access controls for a domain, usually with the intention of escalating privileges on the domain.
- T1484.002
Trust Modification
Adversaries may add new domain trusts, modify the properties of existing domain trusts, or otherwise change the configuration of trust relationships between domains and tenants to evade defenses and/or elevate privileges.Trust details, such as whether or not…
Kill-chain context