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Suspicious application consent for offline access

Description

'This will alert when a user consents to provide a previously-unknown Azure application with offline access via OAuth. Offline access will provide the Azure App with access to the listed resources without requiring two-factor authentication. Consent to applications with offline access and read capabilities should be rare, especially as the knownApplications list is expanded. Public contributions to expand this filter are welcome! For further information on AuditLogs please see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/reference-audit-activities.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.2
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1d
Query period
14d
Trigger
gt 0

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Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

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Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let detectionTime = 1d;
let joinLookback = 14d;
AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(detectionTime)
| where LoggedByService =~ "Core Directory"
| where Category =~ "ApplicationManagement"
| where OperationName =~ "Consent to application"
| where TargetResources has "offline"
| mv-apply TargetResource=TargetResources on 
  (
      where TargetResource.type =~ "ServicePrincipal"
      | extend ModifiedProperties = TargetResource.modifiedProperties,
               AppDisplayName = tostring(TargetResource.displayName),
               AppClientId = tolower(tostring(TargetResource.id))
  )
| where AppClientId !in ((externaldata(knownAppClientId:string, knownAppDisplayName:string)[@"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/Sample%20Data/Feeds/Microsoft.OAuth.KnownApplications.csv"] with (format="csv")))
| mv-apply Properties=ModifiedProperties on 
  (
      where Properties.displayName =~ "ConsentAction.Permissions"
      | extend ConsentFull = tostring(Properties.newValue)
      | extend ConsentFull = trim(@'"',tostring(ConsentFull))
  )
| parse ConsentFull with * "ConsentType: " GrantConsentType ", Scope: " GrantScope1 "]" *
| where ConsentFull has "offline_access" and ConsentFull has_any ("Files.Read", "Mail.Read", "Notes.Read", "ChannelMessage.Read", "Chat.Read", "TeamsActivity.Read", "Group.Read", "EWS.AccessAsUser.All", "EAS.AccessAsUser.All")
| where GrantConsentType != "AllPrincipals" // NOTE: we are ignoring if OAuth application was granted to all users via an admin - but admin due diligence should be audited occasionally
| extend GrantInitiatedByAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
| extend GrantInitiatedByAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
| extend GrantInitiatedByUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend GrantInitiatedByAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend GrantIpAddress = iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), tostring(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), tostring(InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| extend GrantInitiatedBy = iff(isnotempty(GrantInitiatedByUserPrincipalName), GrantInitiatedByUserPrincipalName, GrantInitiatedByAppName)
| extend GrantUserAgent = tostring(iff(AdditionalDetails[0].key =~ "User-Agent", AdditionalDetails[0].value, ""))
| project TimeGenerated, GrantConsentType, GrantScope1, GrantInitiatedBy, AppDisplayName, GrantInitiatedByUserPrincipalName, GrantInitiatedByAadUserId, GrantInitiatedByAppName, GrantInitiatedByAppServicePrincipalId, GrantIpAddress, GrantUserAgent, AppClientId, OperationName, ConsentFull, CorrelationId
| join kind = leftouter (AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(joinLookback)
| where LoggedByService =~ "Core Directory"
| where Category =~ "ApplicationManagement"
| where OperationName =~ "Add service principal"
| mv-apply TargetResource=TargetResources on 
  (
      where TargetResource.type =~ "ServicePrincipal"
      | extend ModifiedProperties = TargetResource.modifiedProperties,
               AppClientId = tolower(TargetResource.id)
  )
| mv-apply ModifiedProperties=TargetResource.modifiedProperties on 
   (
      where ModifiedProperties.displayName =~ "AppAddress" and ModifiedProperties.newValue has "AddressType"
      | extend AppReplyURLs = ModifiedProperties.newValue
   )
 | distinct AppClientId, tostring(AppReplyURLs)
)
on AppClientId
| join kind = innerunique (AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(joinLookback)
| where LoggedByService =~ "Core Directory"
| where Category =~ "ApplicationManagement"
| where OperationName =~ "Add OAuth2PermissionGrant" or OperationName =~ "Add delegated permission grant"
 | mv-apply TargetResource=TargetResources on 
  (
      where TargetResource.type =~ "ServicePrincipal" and array_length(TargetResource.modifiedProperties) > 0 and isnotnull(TargetResource.displayName)
      | extend GrantAuthentication = tostring(TargetResource.displayName)
  )
| extend GrantOperation = OperationName
| project GrantAuthentication, GrantOperation, CorrelationId
) on CorrelationId
| project TimeGenerated, GrantConsentType, GrantScope1, GrantInitiatedBy, AppDisplayName, AppReplyURLs, GrantInitiatedByUserPrincipalName, GrantInitiatedByAadUserId, GrantInitiatedByAppName, GrantInitiatedByAppServicePrincipalId, GrantIpAddress, GrantUserAgent, AppClientId, GrantAuthentication, OperationName, GrantOperation, CorrelationId, ConsentFull
| extend Name = tostring(split(GrantInitiatedByUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(GrantInitiatedByUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])

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AccountIP

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GitHub

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Source identifier
3533f74c-9207-4047-96e2-0eb9383be587
Additional source files 3Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Analytic Rules/SuspiciousOAuthApp_OfflineAccess.yamlsource ↗Detections/AuditLogs/SuspiciousOAuthApp_OfflineAccess.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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