
Storm-2949: Azure VM Run Command, VMAccess Backdoor, and Key Vault Secret Dump
A hands-on-keyboard intrusion that turned one compromised cloud identity into control over an entire Azure estate. After seizing a finance user's account through self-service password reset abuse and attacker-owned MFA, the operator enumerated the tenant, escalated with an RBAC role assignment, harvested App Service publishing profiles, rewrote a Key Vault access policy and dumped every secret in four minutes, stole storage keys, and finished on a production VM using the VMAccess extension to mint a backdoor admin and Run Command to disable Defender and install ScreenConnect. Reconstruct the kill chain from the Azure cloud audit trail and the VM's endpoint XDR telemetry, and classify the key ATT&CK techniques.
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