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Unusual identity creation using exchange powershell

Description

' The query below identifies creation of unusual identity by the Europium actor to mimic Microsoft Exchange Health Manager Service account using Exchange PowerShell commands Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/09/08/microsoft-investigates-iranian-attacks-against-the-albanian-government/'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.1.1
Query frequency
12h
Query period
12h
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.

(union isfuzzy=true
(SecurityEvent
| where EventID==4688
| where CommandLine has_any ("New-Mailbox","Update-RoleGroupMember") and CommandLine has "HealthMailbox55x2yq"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName = Computer, AccountName = SubjectUserName, AccountDomain = SubjectDomainName, ProcessName, ProcessNameFullPath = NewProcessName, EventID, Activity, CommandLine, EventSourceName, Type
| extend InitiatingProcessAccount = strcat(AccountDomain, "\\", AccountName)
),
(DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("New-Mailbox","Update-RoleGroupMember") and ProcessCommandLine has "HealthMailbox55x2yq"
| extend timestamp = TimeGenerated, AccountDomain = InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, AccountName = InitiatingProcessAccountName
| extend InitiatingProcessAccount = strcat(AccountDomain, "\\", AccountName)
)
)
| extend HostName = tostring(split(DeviceName, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(DeviceName, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(DeviceName, DomainIndex + 1), DeviceName)

Declared entities

AccountHost

Related content

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
0a3f4f4f-46ad-4562-acd6-f17730a5aef4
Additional source files 1Detections/MultipleDataSources/EuropiumUnusualIdentity.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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