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High severity malicious activity detected
Description
Identifies high severity malicious activity in Azure Firewall IDPS logs.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 24h
- 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 TimeWindow = 90d; // How far back to look
let HitThreshold = 10; // Minimum hits to alert per SourceIp + Category
let MinSeverity = 1; // Set Minimum Severity
let EnableCategoryFilter = true; // Filter 1: use CategoriesOfInterest
let EnableDescriptionFilter = false; // Filter 2: use DescriptionsOfInterest
let EnableActionFilter = false; // Filter 3: use MatchActions
let CategoriesOfInterest = dynamic([
"Targeted Malicious Activity was Detected",
"Exploit Kit Activity Detected",
"Domain Observed Used for C2 Detected",
"Successful Credential Theft Detected",
"Malware Command and Control Activity Detected",
"Executable code was detected",
"A Network Trojan was detected"
]);
let DescriptionsOfInterest = dynamic([
"targeted-activity",
"exploit-kit",
"domain-c2",
"credential-theft",
"command-and-control",
"shellcode-detect",
"trojan-activity"
]);
let MatchActions = dynamic(["Deny", "alert"]);
AZFWIdpsSignature
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(TimeWindow)
| where Severity >= MinSeverity
// Filter 1: Category filter (optional)
| where (EnableCategoryFilter == false) or (Category has_any (CategoriesOfInterest))
// Filter 2: Description filter (optional)
| where (EnableDescriptionFilter == false) or (Description has_any (DescriptionsOfInterest))
// Filter 3: Action filter (optional)
| where (EnableActionFilter == false) or (Action in~ (MatchActions))
| summarize
StartTime = min(TimeGenerated),
EndTime = max(TimeGenerated),
TotalHits = count(),
MaxSeverity = max(Severity),
Actions = make_set(Action, 5),
Signatures = make_set(SignatureId, 20),
Description = make_set(substring(tostring(Description), 0, 120), 3)
by SourceIp, ThreatCategory = Category
| where TotalHits >= HitThreshold
| project
StartTime,
EndTime,
SourceIp,
ThreatCategory,
TotalHits,
MaxSeverity,
Actions,
Signatures,
Description
| order by MaxSeverity desc, TotalHits desc
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
504257c1-81e2-4609-8d40-b395e62f11c7
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC