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User joining Zoom meeting from suspicious timezone

Description

'The alert shows users that join a Zoom meeting from a time zone other than the one the meeting was created in. You can also whitelist known good time zones in the tz_whitelist value using the tz database name format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.4
Query frequency
1d
Query period
14d
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let schedule_lookback = 14d;
let join_lookback = 1d;
// If you want to whitelist specific timezones include them in a list here
let tz_whitelist = dynamic([]);
let meetings = (
ZoomLogs
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(schedule_lookback)
| where Event =~ "meeting.created"
| extend MeetingId = tostring(parse_json(MeetingEvents).MeetingId)
| extend SchedTimezone = tostring(parse_json(MeetingEvents).Timezone));
ZoomLogs
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(join_lookback)
| where Event =~ "meeting.participant_joined"
| extend JoinedTimeZone = tostring(parse_json(MeetingEvents).Timezone)
| extend MeetingName = tostring(parse_json(MeetingEvents).MeetingName)
| extend MeetingId = tostring(parse_json(MeetingEvents).MeetingId)
| where JoinedTimeZone !in (tz_whitelist)
| join (meetings) on MeetingId
| where SchedTimezone != JoinedTimeZone
| project TimeGenerated, MeetingName, JoiningUser=payload_object_participant_user_name_s, JoinedTimeZone, SchedTimezone, MeetingScheduler=User1
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(JoiningUser, "@")[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(JoiningUser, "@")[1])

Declared entities

Account

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
58fc0170-0877-4ea8-a9ff-d805e361cfae
Additional source files 1Detections/ZoomLogs/JoiningMeetingFromAnotherTimeZone.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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