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AD user enabled and password not set within 48 hours
Description
'Identifies when an account is enabled with a default password and the password is not set by the user within 48 hours.
Effectively, there is an event 4722 indicating an account was enabled and within 48 hours, no event 4723 occurs which
indicates there was no attempt by the user to set the password. This will show any attempts (success or fail) that occur
after 48 hours, which can indicate too long of a time period in setting the password to something that only the user knows.
It is recommended that this time period is adjusted per your internal company policy.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 3d
- 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 starttime = 3d;
let SecEvents = materialize ( SecurityEvent | where TimeGenerated >= ago(starttime)
| where EventID in (4722,4723) | where TargetUserName !endswith "$"
| project TimeGenerated, EventID, Activity, Computer, TargetAccount, TargetSid, SubjectAccount, SubjectUserSid);
let userEnable = SecEvents
| extend EventID4722Time = TimeGenerated
// 4722: User Account Enabled
| where EventID == 4722
| project Time_Event4722 = TimeGenerated, TargetAccount, TargetSid, SubjectAccount_Event4722 = SubjectAccount, SubjectUserSid_Event4722 = SubjectUserSid, Activity_4722 = Activity, Computer_4722 = Computer;
let userPwdSet = SecEvents
// 4723: Attempt made by user to set password
| where EventID == 4723
| project Time_Event4723 = TimeGenerated, TargetAccount, TargetSid, SubjectAccount_Event4723 = SubjectAccount, SubjectUserSid_Event4723 = SubjectUserSid, Activity_4723 = Activity, Computer_4723 = Computer;
userEnable | join kind=leftouter userPwdSet on TargetAccount, TargetSid
| extend PasswordSetAttemptDelta_Min = datetime_diff('minute', Time_Event4723, Time_Event4722)
| where PasswordSetAttemptDelta_Min > 2880 or isempty(PasswordSetAttemptDelta_Min)
| project-away TargetAccount1, TargetSid1
| extend Reason = @"User either has not yet attempted to set the initial password after account was enabled or it occurred after 48 hours"
| order by Time_Event4722 asc
| project-reorder Time_Event4722, Time_Event4723, PasswordSetAttemptDelta_Min, TargetAccount, TargetSid
| extend Computer = coalesce(Computer_4723, Computer_4722)
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Computer, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Computer, DomainIndex + 1), Computer)
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(TargetAccount, "\\")[1]), AccountNTDomain = tostring(split(TargetAccount, "\\")[0])
| project-away DomainIndex
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Source provenance
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- Commit
7ca9800↗- Source identifier
62085097-d113-459f-9ea7-30216f2ee6af
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC