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New country signIn with correct password

Description

'Identifies an interrupted sign-in session from a country the user has not sign-in before in the last 7 days, where the password was correct. Although the session is interrupted by other controls such as multi factor authentication or conditional access policies, the user credentials should be reset due to logs indicating a correct password was observed during sign-in.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.2
Query frequency
1d
Query period
7d
Trigger
gt 0

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KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

// Creating a list of successful sign-in by users in the last 7 days.
let KnownUserCountry = (
SigninLogs
| where TimeGenerated between (ago(7d) .. ago(1d) ) 
| where ResultType == 0
| summarize KnownCountry = make_set(Location,1048576) by UserPrincipalName
);
// Identify sign-ins that are no successful but have the auth details indicating a correct password.
SigninLogs
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(1d)
| where ResultType != 0
| extend ParseAuth = parse_json(AuthenticationDetails)
| extend AuthMethod = tostring(ParseAuth.[0].authenticationMethod),
    PasswordResult = tostring(ParseAuth.[0].authenticationStepResultDetail),
    AuthSucceeded = tostring(ParseAuth.[0].succeeded)
| where PasswordResult == "Correct Password" or AuthSucceeded == "true"
| where AuthMethod == "Password"
| extend failureReason = tostring(Status.failureReason)
| summarize NewCountry = make_set(Location,1048576), LastObservedTime = max(TimeGenerated), AppName = make_set(AppDisplayName,1048576) by UserPrincipalName, PasswordResult, AuthSucceeded, failureReason
// Combining both tables by user
| join kind=inner KnownUserCountry on UserPrincipalName
// Compare both arrays and identify if the country has been observed in the past.
| extend CountryDiff = set_difference(NewCountry,KnownCountry)
| extend CountryDiffCount = array_length(CountryDiff)
// Count the new column to only alert if there is a difference between both arrays
| where CountryDiffCount != 0
| extend NewCountryEvent = CountryDiff
// Getting UserName and Domain
| extend Name = split(UserPrincipalName,"@",0),
    Domain = split(UserPrincipalName,"@",1)
| mv-expand Name,Domain

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Account

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GitHub

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Source identifier
7808c05a-3afd-4d13-998a-a59e2297693f
Additional source files 1Detections/SigninLogs/NewCountryValidCreds.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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