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Brute force attack against user credentials

Description

'Identifies evidence of brute force activity against a user based on multiple authentication failures and at least one successful authentication within a given time window. This query limits IPAddresses to 100 and may not potentially cover all IPAddresses. The default failure threshold is 10, success threshold is 1, and the default time window is 20 minutes.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.4
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
1h
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 failureCountThreshold = 10;
let successCountThreshold = 1;
let Failures =
SalesforceServiceCloud
| where EventType == "Login" and LoginStatus != "LOGIN_NO_ERROR"
| summarize
      FailureStartTime = min(TimeGenerated),
      FailureEndTime = max(TimeGenerated),
      IpAddresses = make_set (ClientIp, 100),
      FailureCount = count() by User, UserId, UserType;
  SalesforceServiceCloud
  | where EventType == "Login" and LoginStatus == "LOGIN_NO_ERROR"
  | summarize
          SuccessStartTime = min(TimeGenerated),
          SuccessEndTime = max(TimeGenerated),
          IpAddresses = make_set (ClientIp, 100),
          SuccessCount = count() by User, UserId, UserType
  | join kind=leftouter Failures on UserId
  | where FailureCount >= failureCountThreshold and SuccessCount >= successCountThreshold
  | where FailureEndTime < SuccessStartTime
  | project User, EventStartTime = FailureStartTime, EventEndTime = SuccessEndTime, IpAddresses

Declared entities

Account

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
5a6ce089-e756-40fb-b022-c8e8864a973a
Additional source files 2Solutions/Salesforce Service Cloud/Analytic Rules/Salesforce-BruteForce.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Salesforce Service Cloud/Data/Solution_TSalesforceCloudtemplateSpec.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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