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Mail.Read Permissions Granted to Application

Description

'This query look for applications that have been granted (Delegated or App/Role) permissions to Read Mail (Permissions field has Mail.Read) and subsequently has been consented to. This can help identify applications that have been abused to gain access to mailboxes.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.4
Declared status
Available
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.

AuditLogs
| where Category =~ "ApplicationManagement"
| where ActivityDisplayName has_any ("Add delegated permission grant","Add app role assignment to service principal")  
| where Result =~ "success"
| where tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName) has "@" or tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName) has "@"
| mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on 
  (
      where TargetResource.type =~ "ServicePrincipal" and array_length(TargetResource.modifiedProperties) > 0 and isnotnull(TargetResource.displayName)
      | extend props = TargetResource.modifiedProperties,
               Type = tostring(TargetResource.type),
               PermissionsAddedTo = tostring(TargetResource.displayName)
  )
| mv-apply Property = props on 
  (
      where Property.displayName =~ "DelegatedPermissionGrant.Scope"
      | extend DisplayName = tostring(Property.displayName), Permissions = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
  )
| where Permissions has_any ("Mail.Read", "Mail.ReadWrite")
| mv-apply AdditionalDetail = AdditionalDetails on 
  (
      where AdditionalDetail.key =~ "User-Agent"
      | extend InitiatingUserAgent = tostring(AdditionalDetail.value)
  )
| extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
| extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
| extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| project-away props, TargetResource, AdditionalDetail, Property
| join kind=leftouter(
  AuditLogs
  | where ActivityDisplayName has "Consent to application"
  | mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on 
      (
          where TargetResource.type =~ "ServicePrincipal"
          | extend AppName = tostring(TargetResource.displayName),
                   AppId = tostring(TargetResource.id)
      )
| project AppName, AppId, CorrelationId) on CorrelationId
| project-away CorrelationId1
| project-reorder TimeGenerated, OperationName, InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId, InitiatingIpAddress, InitiatingUserAgent, PermissionsAddedTo, Permissions, AppName, AppId, CorrelationId
| extend Name = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])

Declared entities

AccountIP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
2560515c-07d1-434e-87fb-ebe3af267760
Additional source files 3Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Analytic Rules/MailPermissionsAddedToApplication.yamlsource ↗Detections/AuditLogs/MailPermissionsAddedToApplication.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Data/Solution_AAD.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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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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