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Potential Password Spray Attack

Description

'This query searches for failed attempts to log in from more than 15 various users within a 5 minutes timeframe from the same source. This is a potential indication of a password spray attack.'
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 FailureThreshold = 15;  
SalesforceServiceCloud
| where EventType =~ 'Login' and  LoginStatus != 'LOGIN_NO_ERROR'
| where LoginStatus  in~ ('LOGIN_ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD', 'LOGIN_ERROR_SSO_PWD_INVALID')
| extend TimestampDerived = todatetime(TimestampDerived)
| summarize UserCount=dcount(UserId), Users = make_set(UserId,100) by ClientIp, bin(TimestampDerived, 5m)
| where UserCount > FailureThreshold

Declared entities

IP

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
64d16e62-1a17-4a35-9ea7-2b9fe6f07118
Additional source files 2Solutions/Salesforce Service Cloud/Analytic Rules/Salesforce-PasswordSpray.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Salesforce Service Cloud/Data/Solution_TSalesforceCloudtemplateSpec.jsonsolution-membership ↗
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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