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Known Forest Blizzard group domains - July 2019

Description

'Matches domain name IOCs related to Forest Blizzard group activity published July 2019 with CommonSecurityLog, DnsEvents and VMConnection dataTypes. References: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/07/17/new-cyberthreats-require-new-ways-to-protect-democracy/.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.6.1
Query frequency
1d
Query period
1d
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let DomainNames = dynamic(["irf.services","microsoft-onthehub.com","msofficelab.com","com-mailbox.com","my-sharefile.com","my-sharepoints.com",
"accounts-web-mail.com","customer-certificate.com","session-users-activities.com","user-profile-credentials.com","verify-linke.com","support-servics.net",
"onedrive-sharedfile.com","onedrv-live.com","transparencyinternational-my-sharepoint.com","transparencyinternational-my-sharepoints.com","soros-my-sharepoint.com"]);
(union isfuzzy=true
  (CommonSecurityLog
  | where Message has_any (DomainNames)
  | parse Message with * '(' DNSName ')' *
  | extend AccountName = SourceUserID, DeviceName, IPAddress = SourceIP
  ),
  (_Im_Dns(domain_has_any=DomainNames)
  | where DnsQuery has_any (DomainNames)
  | extend IPAddress = SrcIpAddr, DeviceName = Dvc
  ),
  (VMConnection
  | where RemoteDnsCanonicalNames has_any (DomainNames)
  | parse RemoteDnsCanonicalNames with * '["' DNSName '"]' *
  | extend IPAddress = RemoteIp, DeviceName = Computer
  ),
  (AzureDiagnostics 
  | where ResourceType == "AZUREFIREWALLS"
  | where Category == "AzureFirewallApplicationRule"
  | parse msg_s with Protocol 'request from ' SourceHost ':' SourcePort 'to ' DestinationHost ':' DestinationPort '. Action:' Action
  | where DestinationHost has_any (DomainNames)
  | extend DNSName = DestinationHost 
  | extend IPAddress = SourceHost
  ),
  (AzureDiagnostics
  | where ResourceType == "AZUREFIREWALLS"
  | where Category == "AzureFirewallDnsProxy"
  | project TimeGenerated,Resource, msg_s, Type
  | parse msg_s with "DNS Request: " ClientIP ":" ClientPort " - " QueryID " " Request_Type " " Request_Class " " Request_Name ". " Request_Protocol " " Request_Size " " EDNSO_DO " " EDNS0_Buffersize " " Responce_Code " " Responce_Flags " " Responce_Size " " Response_Duration
  | where Request_Name  has_any (DomainNames)
  | extend DNSName = Request_Name
  | extend IPAddress = ClientIP
  ),
  (AZFWApplicationRule
  | where isnotempty(Fqdn)
  | where Fqdn has_any (DomainNames)  
  | extend DNSName = Fqdn 
  | extend IPAddress = SourceIp
  ),
  (AZFWDnsQuery
  | where isnotempty(QueryName)
  | where QueryName has_any (DomainNames)
  | extend DNSName = QueryName
  | extend IPAddress = SourceIp
  ),
  (
    _Im_WebSession(url_has_any=DomainNames)
    | extend IPAddress=IpAddr, DeviceName=Hostname, AccountName = tostring(split(User, "@")[0]), AccountDomain = tostring(split(User, "@")[1])
  )
)
| where DNSName has_any (DomainNames)
| extend timestamp = TimeGenerated
| extend HostName = tostring(split(DeviceName, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(DeviceName, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(DeviceName, DomainIndex + 1), DeviceName)

Declared entities

AccountHostIP

Related content

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
074ce265-f684-41cd-af07-613c5f3e6d0d
Additional source files 1Detections/MultipleDataSources/ForestBlizzardJuly2019IOCs.yamlsource ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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