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TI Map Email entity to SecurityEvent
Description
'Identifies a match in SecurityEvent table from any Email IOC from TI'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.3.11
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 14d
- 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 dt_lookBack = 1h;
let ioc_lookBack = 14d;
let emailregex = @'^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$';
ThreatIntelIndicators
//Filtering the table for Email related IOCs
| extend IndicatorType = replace(@"\[|\]|\""", "", tostring(split(ObservableKey, ":", 0)))
| where IndicatorType == "email-addr"
| extend EmailSenderAddress = ObservableValue
| extend EmailSourceDomain = substring(EmailSenderAddress, indexof(EmailSenderAddress, "@") + 1, strlen(EmailSenderAddress) - indexof(EmailSenderAddress, "@") - 1)
| extend TrafficLightProtocolLevel = tostring(parse_json(AdditionalFields).TLPLevel)
| extend IndicatorId = tostring(split(Id, "--")[2])
| extend Url = iff(ObservableKey == "url:value", ObservableValue, "")
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(ioc_lookBack)
| summarize LatestIndicatorTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by Id, ObservableValue
| where IsActive and (ValidUntil > now() or isempty(ValidUntil))
| project-reorder *, TrafficLightProtocolLevel, EmailSenderAddress, EmailSourceDomain, Type
// using innerunique to keep perf fast and result set low, we only need one match to indicate potential malicious activity that needs to be investigated
| join kind=innerunique (
(union isfuzzy=true
(SecurityEvent
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack) and isnotempty(TargetUserName)
//Normalizing the column to lower case for exact match with EmailSenderAddress column
| extend TargetUserName = tolower(TargetUserName)
// renaming timestamp column so it is clear the log this came from SecurityEvent table
| extend SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
),
(WindowsEvent
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack)
| extend TargetUserName = tostring(EventData.TargetUserName)
| where isnotempty(TargetUserName)
//Normalizing the column to lower case for exact match with EmailSenderAddress column
| extend TargetUserName = tolower(TargetUserName)
// renaming timestamp column so it is clear the log this came from SecurityEvent table
| extend SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
))
)
on $left.EmailSenderAddress == $right.TargetUserName
| where SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated < ValidUntil
| summarize SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated = arg_max(SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated, *) by Id, TargetUserName
| extend Description = tostring(parse_json(Data).description)
| extend ActivityGroupNames = extract(@"ActivityGroup:(\S+)", 1, tostring(parse_json(Data).labels))
| project SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated, Description, ActivityGroupNames, Id, ValidUntil, Confidence,
EmailSenderAddress, Computer, EventID, TargetUserName, Activity, IpAddress, AccountType,
LogonTypeName, LogonProcessName, Status, SubStatus, Url
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, '.', 0)[0]), DnsDomain = tostring(strcat_array(array_slice(split(Computer, '.'), 1, -1), '.'))
| extend timestamp = SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated
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- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
0a59051d-aed4-4fb6-bf84-bc80534482b2
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC