1.01 - Login from a highly-privileged account

A login occured from a highly privileged account (e.g. Super Admin, Org Admin) to Google Cloud, be it from Cloud Console, Admin Console or gcloud CLI.

Category: Login & Access Patterns
Use Cases: Detect
Data Sources: Workspace Login Audit (Cloud Identity Logs)

Queries or Rules

BigQuery	Log Analytics	Google SecOps
SQL	SQL	YARA-L

Event Generation

Login as admin user via gcloud CLI. Note lag time of Workspace Audit Login Logs can be up to a few hours.

Test Prerequisites

1. Install gcloud
2. Enable Workspace Audit Logs forwarding to Cloud Audit Logs

Test Input

Name	Description	Type	Default Value
account	user account of test admin to be used for authentication	String	test-admin

Test Commands

gcloud auth login #{account} --no-browser --force

Sample Event

google.login.LoginService.loginSuccess

{
  "protoPayload": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.audit.AuditLog",
    "authenticationInfo": {
      "principalEmail": "test-admin@example.com"
    },
    "requestMetadata": {
      "callerIp": "203.0.113.255",
      "requestAttributes": {
      },
      "destinationAttributes": {
      }
    },
    "serviceName": "login.googleapis.com",
    "methodName": "google.login.LoginService.loginSuccess",
    "resourceName": "organizations/123",
    "metadata": {
      "activityId": {
        "uniqQualifier": "68159791739",
        "timeUsec": "1644956823029221"
      },
      "event": [
        {
          "eventType": "login",
          "eventName": "login_success",
          "parameter": [
            {
              "type": "TYPE_STRING",
              "value": "google_password",
              "name": "login_type",
              "label": "LABEL_OPTIONAL"
            },
            {
              "type": "TYPE_STRING",
              "multiStrValue": [
                "password"
              ],
              "name": "login_challenge_method",
              "label": "LABEL_REPEATED"
            },
            {
              "label": "LABEL_OPTIONAL",
              "boolValue": false,
              "type": "TYPE_BOOL",
              "name": "is_suspicious"
            },
            {
              "label": "LABEL_OPTIONAL",
              "name": "dusi",
              "type": "TYPE_STRING",
              "value": "IPz6z56q5KOAWg"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "@type": "type.googleapis.com/ccc_hosted_reporting.ActivityProto"
    }
  },
  "insertId": "81t06te4dnk4",
  "resource": {
    "type": "audited_resource",
    "labels": {
      "service": "login.googleapis.com",
      "method": "google.login.LoginService.loginSuccess"
    }
  },
  "timestamp": "2022-02-15T20:27:03.029221Z",
  "severity": "NOTICE",
  "logName": "organizations/123/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fdata_access",
  "receiveTimestamp": "2022-02-15T21:46:30.296228580Z"
}