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Vectra AI Detect - Detections with High Severity

Description

'Create an incident for high severity malicious behavior detected by Vectra AI (Threat score superior to 7.0). The Severity is a mapping with the Threat score assigned to a detection. It ranges between 0 and 10. The severity_threshold variable can be adjusted as desired.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.1.0
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
5m
Query period
5m
Trigger
gt 0

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Original query, unchanged.

// Edit this variable to only keep the tactics where an incident needs to be created (Defaults are: "COMMAND & CONTROL", "BOTNET ACTIVITY", "EXFILTRATION", "LATERAL MOVEMENT", "RECONNAISSANCE")   
let configured_tactics = dynamic(["COMMAND & CONTROL", "BOTNET ACTIVITY", "EXFILTRATION", "LATERAL MOVEMENT", "RECONNAISSANCE"]);
//default threshold is 7 (meaning a threat score of 70)
let severity_threshold = 7.0;
//Map by default to High Severity in Sentinel
let Severity = "High";
CommonSecurityLog
| where DeviceVendor == "Vectra Networks"
| where DeviceProduct == "X Series"
| where DeviceEventClassID != "campaigns" and DeviceEventClassID != "hsc" and DeviceEventClassID != "audit" and DeviceEventClassID != "health" and DeviceEventClassID != "asc"
| extend Category = coalesce(
                          column_ifexists("DeviceEventCategory", ""), 
                          extract("cat=(.+?)(;|$)", 1, AdditionalExtensions), 
                          ""
                      )
| project-rename threat_score = FlexNumber1
| project-rename certainty_score = FlexNumber2
| project-rename vectra_URL = DeviceCustomString4
| project-rename detection_name = DeviceEventClassID
| where todecimal(LogSeverity) >= severity_threshold
| extend Tactic = case( Category == "COMMAND & CONTROL", "CommandAndControl",
                        Category == "BOTNET ACTIVITY" , "Impact",
                        Category == "EXFILTRATION", "Exfiltration",
                        Category == "LATERAL MOVEMENT", "LateralMovement",
                        Category == "RECONNAISSANCE", "Discovery",
                        "UNKNOWN")
| extend level = case(threat_score == 0 and certainty_score == 0, "Info",
    threat_score < 50 and certainty_score < 50, "Low",
    threat_score < 50 and certainty_score >= 50, "Medium", 
    threat_score >= 50 and certainty_score <= 50, "High", 
    threat_score >= 50 and certainty_score >= 50, "Critical",
    "UNKNOWN")
| extend Severity = case(level == "Info", "Informational",level == "Critical", "High", level)
| extend account = extract("account=(.+?);", 1, AdditionalExtensions)
| extend upn = iff(account matches regex ":", tostring(split(account,":")[1]) ,tostring(split(account,":")[0]))
| extend name = tostring(split(upn, "@")[0])
| extend upn_suffix = tostring(split(upn, "@")[1])
| extend source_entity = case( isnotempty(upn), upn,
                               isnotempty(SourceHostName), SourceHostName,
                               "UNKNWON") 
| where Category in (configured_tactics) 
| summarize arg_max(threat_score, *) by source_entity, Activity
| sort by TimeGenerated

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HostAccount

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Source identifier
39e48890-2c02-487e-aa9e-3ba494061798
Additional source files 2Solutions/Vectra AI Detect/Analytic Rules/VectraDetect-HighSeverityDetection-by-Tactics.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Vectra AI Detect/Data/Solution_Vectra AI Detect.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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