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Unauthorized user access across AWS and Azure

Description

'This detection compiles and correlates unauthorized user access alerts originating from AWS GuardDuty with Azure portal sign-in activities. It focuses on AWS GuardDuty alerts related to unauthorized user access, specifically targeting network IP associations tied to activities such as logins from malicious IP addresses or instance credential exfiltration attempts. The ditection leverages these common network IP advisories to detect and pinpoint unauthorized users attempting to access both AWS and Azure resources.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.4
Query frequency
1d
Query period
1d
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.

// Define a variable 'AwsAlert' to collect Unauthorized user access alerts from AWS GuardDuty table
let AwsAlert = materialize (
    AWSGuardDuty
    | where ActivityType has_any ("UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/TorIPCaller", "UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/MaliciousIPCaller.Custom", 
    "UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration.OutsideAWS", "UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration.InsideAWS",
    "UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/ConsoleLoginSuccess.B","UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/MaliciousIPCaller")
    | extend
        AWSAlertId = Id, 
        AWSAlertTitle = Title,
        AWSAlertDescription = Description,
        AWSresourceType = tostring(parse_json(ResourceDetails).resourceType),
        AWSNetworkEntity = tostring(parse_json(ServiceDetails).action.awsApiCallAction.remoteIpDetails.ipAddressV4),
        AWSAlertUserNameEntity = tostring(parse_json(ResourceDetails).accessKeyDetails.userName),
        InstanceType = tostring(parse_json(ResourceDetails).instanceDetails.instanceType),
        AWSTargetingService = parse_json(ServiceDetails).additionalInfo.apiCalls,
        AWSAlertTime = TimeCreated,
        AWSAlertLink= tostring(strcat('https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/home?region=us-east-1#/findings?macros=current&fId=',Id)),
        Severity = 
  case (
    Severity >= 7.0, "High",
    Severity between (4.0 .. 6.9), "Medium",
    Severity between (1.0 .. 3.9), "Low",
    "Unknown")
    | mv-apply AIPCall = AWSTargetingService on 
        ( 
        where AIPCall has "name"    
        | extend APICallName = tostring(AIPCall.name), APICallCount = tostring(AIPCall["count"])
        ) 
    | distinct
        AWSAlertTime,
        ActivityType,
        Severity,
        AWSAlertId,
        AWSAlertTitle,
        AWSAlertDescription,
        AWSAlertLink,
        Arn,
        AWSresourceType,
        AWSNetworkEntity,
        AWSAlertUserNameEntity,
        InstanceType,
        APICallName,
        APICallCount      
    );
    // Define a variable 'Azure_sigin' to collect Azure portal Signing activity from SigninLogs Table
    let Azure_sigin = materialize (SigninLogs
        | where AppDisplayName == "Azure Portal"
        | where isnotempty(OriginalRequestId)
        | summarize 
            totalAzureLoginEventId = dcount(OriginalRequestId), 
            AzureFailedEventsCount = dcountif(OriginalRequestId, ResultType != 0), 
            AzureSuccessfulEventsCount = dcountif(OriginalRequestId, ResultType == 0),
            AzureSetOfFailedEvents = makeset(iff(ResultType != 0, OriginalRequestId, ""), 5), 
            AzureSetOfSuccessfulEvents = makeset(iff(ResultType == 0, OriginalRequestId, ""), 5) 
        by 
            IPAddress, 
            UserPrincipalName, 
            bin(TimeGenerated, 1min), 
            UserAgent,
            ConditionalAccessStatus,
            OperationName,
            RiskDetail,
            AuthenticationRequirement,
            ClientAppUsed 
        // Extracting the name and UPN suffix from UserPrincipalName
        | extend
            Name = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName, "@")[0]),
            UPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName, "@")[1])
    );
    // Join 'AwsAlert' and 'Azure_sigin' on the AWS Network Entity and Azure IP Address
    AwsAlert
    | join kind=inner Azure_sigin on $left.AWSNetworkEntity == $right.IPAddress

Declared entities

IPAccount

Related content

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
60f31001-018a-42bf-8045-a92e1f361b7b
Additional source files 2Solutions/Multi Cloud Attack Coverage Essentials - Resource Abuse/Analytic Rules/Unauthorized_user_access_across_AWS_and_Azure.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Multi Cloud Attack Coverage Essentials - Resource Abuse/Data/Solution_Multi Cloud Attack Coverage Essentials - Resource Abuse.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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