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Microsoft COVID-19 file hash indicator matches

Description

'Identifies a match in CommonSecurityLog Event data from any FileHash published in the Microsoft COVID-19 Threat Intel Feed - as described at https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/05/14/open-sourcing-covid-threat-intelligence/'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.3.6
Declared status
Available
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 covidIndicators = (externaldata(TimeGenerated:datetime, FileHashValue:string, FileHashType: string, TlpLevel: string, Product: string, ThreatType: string, Description: string )
[@"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/Sample%20Data/Feeds/Microsoft.Covid19.Indicators.csv"] with (format="csv"));
let fileHashIndicators = covidIndicators
| where isnotempty(FileHashValue);
// Handle matches against both lower case and uppercase versions of the hash:
(fileHashIndicators | extend FileHashValue = tolower(FileHashValue)
| union (fileHashIndicators | extend FileHashValue = toupper(FileHashValue)))
// 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 (
   CommonSecurityLog | where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack)
   | where isnotempty(FileHash)
   | extend CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
   )
on $left.FileHashValue == $right.FileHash
| summarize CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated = arg_max(CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated, *) by FileHashValue
| project CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated, FileHashValue, FileHashType, Description, ThreatType,
SourceIP, SourcePort, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, SourceUserID, SourceUserName, DeviceName, DeviceAction,
RequestURL, DestinationUserName, DestinationUserID, ApplicationProtocol, Activity
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(SourceUserName, "@")[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(SourceUserName, "@")[1])
| extend HostName = tostring(split(DeviceName, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(DeviceName, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(DeviceName, DomainIndex + 1), DeviceName)

Declared entities

AccountHostIPFileHash

Related content

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Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
2be4ef67-a93f-4d8a-981a-88158cb73abd
Additional source files 2Solutions/PaloAlto-PAN-OS/Analytic Rules/FileHashEntity_Covid19_CommonSecurityLog.yamlsource ↗Solutions/PaloAlto-PAN-OS/data/Solution_PaloAlto-PAN-OS.jsonsolution-membership ↗
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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