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VMware ESXi - Multiple Failed Shell Login via SSH
Description
Identifies a failed ESXi Shell login via SSH in a short TimeFrame. This could be suspicious activity especially if this alert is seen triggering many times within a short time frame which could be evidence of a brute-force attack. TriggerThreshold can be adapted.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 10m
- Query period
- 10m
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
// To Adapt to your environment
let triggerThreshold = 10;
VMwareESXi
| where SyslogMessage has "sshd"
| where SyslogMessage contains "authentication failure"
| extend SrcUsername = extract(@'\[info\]\s+\[(.*?)\]', 1, SyslogMessage)
| extend DstHostname = extract(@'\[\d+\]\s+\[(.*?)\s+on', 1, SyslogMessage)
| extend SrcIpAddr = extract(@'\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})', 1, SyslogMessage)
| summarize make_set(SrcUsername),count() by SrcIpAddr,DstHostname
| where count_ >= triggerThreshold
| extend HostCustomEntity = DstHostname
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
22d177d5-588c-4f1a-a332-2695f52079bb
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC