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User account enabled and disabled within 10 mins

Description

'Identifies when a user account is enabled and then disabled within 10 minutes. This can be an indication of compromise and an adversary attempting to hide in the noise.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.2.3
Query frequency
1d
Query period
25h
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 timeframe = 1d;
let spanoftime = 10m;
let threshold = 0;
  (union isfuzzy=true
    (SecurityEvent
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(timeframe+spanoftime)
    // A user account was enabled
    | where EventID == 4722
    | where AccountType =~ "User"
    | where TargetAccount !endswith "$"
    | project EnableTime = TimeGenerated, EnableEventID = EventID, EnableActivity = Activity, Computer = toupper(Computer), 
    TargetAccount = tolower(TargetAccount), TargetUserName, TargetDomainName, TargetSid, 
    AccountUsedToEnable = SubjectAccount, EnabledBySubjectUserName = SubjectUserName, EnabledBySubjectDomainName = SubjectDomainName, SIDofAccountUsedToEnable = SubjectUserSid, UserPrincipalName
    ),
    (
    WindowsEvent
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(timeframe+spanoftime)
    // A user account was enabled
    | where EventID == 4722
    | extend SubjectUserSid = tostring(EventData.SubjectUserSid)
    | extend AccountType=case(EventData.SubjectUserName endswith "$" or SubjectUserSid in ("S-1-5-18", "S-1-5-19", "S-1-5-20"), "Machine", isempty(SubjectUserSid), "", "User")
    | where AccountType =~ "User"
    | extend SubjectAccount = strcat(tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName),"\\", tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName))
    | extend SubjectDomainName = tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName), SubjectUserName = tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName)
    | extend TargetAccount = strcat(EventData.TargetDomainName,"\\", EventData.TargetUserName)
    | where TargetAccount !endswith "$"
    | extend Activity="4722 - A user account was enabled."
    | extend TargetUserName = tostring(EventData.TargetUserName), TargetDomainName = tostring(EventData.TargetDomainName) 
    | extend TargetSid = tostring(EventData.TargetSid)
    | extend UserPrincipalName = tostring(EventData.UserPrincipalName)
    | project EnableTime = TimeGenerated, EnableEventID = EventID, EnableActivity = Activity, Computer = toupper(Computer), 
    TargetAccount = tolower(TargetAccount), TargetUserName, TargetDomainName, TargetSid, 
    AccountUsedToEnable = SubjectAccount, EnabledBySubjectUserName = SubjectUserName, EnabledBySubjectDomainName = SubjectDomainName, SIDofAccountUsedToEnable = SubjectUserSid, UserPrincipalName
    )
  )
| join kind= inner (
  (union isfuzzy=true
    (SecurityEvent
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(timeframe)
    // A user account was disabled
    | where EventID == 4725
    | where AccountType =~ "User"
    | project DisableTime = TimeGenerated, DisableEventID = EventID, DisableActivity = Activity, Computer = toupper(Computer), 
    TargetAccount = tolower(TargetAccount), TargetUserName, TargetDomainName, TargetSid, 
    AccountUsedToDisable = SubjectAccount, DisabledBySubjectUserName = SubjectUserName, DisabledBySubjectDomainName = SubjectDomainName, SIDofAccountUsedToDisable = SubjectUserSid, UserPrincipalName
    ),
    (WindowsEvent
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(timeframe)
    // A user account was disabled
    | where EventID == 4725
    | extend SubjectUserSid = tostring(EventData.SubjectUserSid)
    | extend AccountType=case(EventData.SubjectUserName endswith "$" or SubjectUserSid in ("S-1-5-18", "S-1-5-19", "S-1-5-20"), "Machine", isempty(SubjectUserSid), "", "User")
    | where AccountType =~ "User"
    | extend SubjectAccount = strcat(tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName),"\\", tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName))
    | extend SubjectDomainName = tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName), SubjectUserName = tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName)
    | extend TargetAccount = strcat(EventData.TargetDomainName,"\\", EventData.TargetUserName)
    | extend TargetUserName = tostring(EventData.TargetUserName), TargetDomainName = tostring(EventData.TargetDomainName) 
    | extend TargetSid = tostring(EventData.TargetSid)
    | extend UserPrincipalName = tostring(EventData.UserPrincipalName)
    | extend Activity = "4725 - A user account was disabled."
    | project DisableTime = TimeGenerated, DisableEventID = EventID, DisableActivity = Activity, Computer = toupper(Computer), 
    TargetAccount = tolower(TargetAccount), TargetUserName, TargetDomainName, TargetSid, 
    AccountUsedToDisable = SubjectAccount, DisabledBySubjectUserName = SubjectUserName, DisabledBySubjectDomainName = SubjectDomainName, SIDofAccountUsedToDisable = SubjectUserSid, UserPrincipalName
    )
  )
) on Computer, TargetAccount
| where DisableTime - EnableTime < spanoftime
| extend TimeDelta = DisableTime - EnableTime
| where tolong(TimeDelta) >= threshold
| project TimeDelta, EnableTime, EnableEventID, EnableActivity, Computer, TargetAccount, TargetSid, TargetUserName, TargetDomainName, UserPrincipalName, 
AccountUsedToEnable, SIDofAccountUsedToEnable, DisableTime, DisableEventID, DisableActivity, AccountUsedToDisable, SIDofAccountUsedToDisable, 
EnabledBySubjectUserName, EnabledBySubjectDomainName, DisabledBySubjectUserName, DisabledBySubjectDomainName
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Computer, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Computer, DomainIndex + 1), Computer)
| project-away DomainIndex

Declared entities

AccountHost

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
3d023f64-8225-41a2-9570-2bd7c2c4535e
Additional source files 1Detections/SecurityEvent/UserAccountEnabledDisabled_10m.yamlsource ↗
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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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