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Phishing link click observed in Network Traffic
Description
'The purpose of this content is to identify successful phishing links accessed by users. Once a user clicks on a phishing link, we observe successful network activity originating from non-Microsoft network devices. These devices may include Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point, and Zscaler devices.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.4
- 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.
//Finding MDO Security alerts and extracting the Entities user, Domain, Ip, and URL.
let Alert_List= dynamic([
"Phishing link click observed in Network Traffic",
"Phish delivered due to an IP allow policy",
"A potentially malicious URL click was detected",
"High Risk Sign-in Observed in Network Traffic",
"A user clicked through to a potentially malicious URL",
"Suspicious network connection to AitM phishing site",
"Messages containing malicious entity not removed after delivery",
"Email messages containing malicious URL removed after delivery",
"Email reported by user as malware or phish",
"Phish delivered due to an ETR override",
"Phish not zapped because ZAP is disabled"]);
SecurityAlert
|where ProviderName in~ ("Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection", "OATP")
| where AlertName in~ (Alert_List)
//extracting Alert Entities
| extend Entities = parse_json(Entities)
| mv-apply Entity = Entities on
(
where Entity.Type == 'account'
| extend EntityUPN = iff(isempty(Entity.UserPrincipalName), tostring(strcat(Entity.Name, "@", tostring (Entity.UPNSuffix))), tostring(Entity.UserPrincipalName))
)
| mv-apply Entity = Entities on
(
where Entity.Type == 'url'
| extend EntityUrl = tostring(Entity.Url)
)
| summarize AccountUpn=tolower(tostring(take_any(EntityUPN))),Url=tostring(tolower(take_any(EntityUrl))),AlertTime= min(TimeGenerated)by SystemAlertId, ProductName
// filtering 3pnetwork devices
| join kind= inner (CommonSecurityLog
| where DeviceVendor has_any ("Palo Alto Networks", "Fortinet", "Check Point", "Zscaler")
| where DeviceAction != "Block"
| where DeviceProduct startswith "FortiGate" or DeviceProduct startswith "PAN" or DeviceProduct startswith "VPN" or DeviceProduct startswith "FireWall" or DeviceProduct startswith "NSSWeblog" or DeviceProduct startswith "URL"
| where isnotempty(RequestURL)
| where isnotempty(SourceUserName)
| extend SourceUserName = tolower(SourceUserName)
| project
3plogTime=TimeGenerated,
DeviceVendor,
DeviceProduct,
Activity,
DestinationHostName,
DestinationIP,
RequestURL=tostring(tolower(RequestURL)),
MaliciousIP,
Name = tostring(split(SourceUserName,"@")[0]),
UPNSuffix =tostring(split(SourceUserName,"@")[1]),
SourceUserName,
IndicatorThreatType,
ThreatSeverity,AdditionalExtensions,
ThreatConfidence)on $left.Url == $right.RequestURL and $left.AccountUpn == $right.SourceUserName
// Applied the condition where alert trigger 1st and then the 3p Network activity execution
| where AlertTime between ((3plogTime - 1h) .. (3plogTime + 1h))
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
2fed0668-6d43-4c78-87e6-510f96f12145
Additional source files 1
Detections/MultipleDataSources/PhishinglinkExecutionObserved.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC