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TI Map Email entity to OfficeActivity

Description

'Identifies a match in OfficeActivity table from any Email IOC from TI'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.2.12
Query frequency
1h
Query period
14d
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 dt_lookBack = 1h;
let ioc_lookBack = 14d;
let emailregex = @'^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$';
let OfficeEvents = materialize(
  OfficeActivity
  | where isnotempty(UserId)
  | where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack)
  | where UserId matches regex emailregex
  | project-rename  OfficeActivity_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated);
let OfficeActivityUPNs = OfficeEvents | distinct UserId = tolower(UserId) | summarize make_list(UserId);
ThreatIntelIndicators
| extend IndicatorType = replace(@"\[|\]|\""", "", tostring(split(ObservableKey, ":", 0)))
| where IndicatorType == "email-addr"
| extend EmailSenderAddress = ObservableValue
| extend EmailSourceDomain = substring(EmailSenderAddress, indexof(EmailSenderAddress, "@") + 1, strlen(EmailSenderAddress) - indexof(EmailSenderAddress, "@") - 1)
| extend TrafficLightProtocolLevel = tostring(parse_json(AdditionalFields).TLPLevel)
| extend Url = iff(ObservableKey == "url:value", ObservableValue, "")
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(ioc_lookBack) 
| where tolower(EmailSenderAddress) in (OfficeActivityUPNs)
| summarize LatestIndicatorTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by Id, ObservableValue
| where IsActive and (ValidUntil > now() or isempty(ValidUntil))
| extend Description = tostring(parse_json(Data).description)
| where Description !contains_cs "State: inactive;" and Description !contains_cs "State: falsepos;"
| project-reorder *, TrafficLightProtocolLevel, EmailSenderAddress, EmailSourceDomain, Type
// using innerunique to keep perf fast and result set low, we only need one match to indicate potential malicious activity that needs to be investigated
| join kind=innerunique (OfficeEvents) on $left.EmailSenderAddress == $right.UserId
| where OfficeActivity_TimeGenerated < ValidUntil
| summarize OfficeActivity_TimeGenerated = arg_max(OfficeActivity_TimeGenerated, *) by Id, UserId
| extend Description = tostring(parse_json(Data).description)
| extend ActivityGroupNames = extract(@"ActivityGroup:(\S+)", 1, tostring(parse_json(Data).labels))
| project OfficeActivity_TimeGenerated, Description, ActivityGroupNames, Id, ValidUntil, Confidence, EmailSenderAddress, EmailSourceDomain, UserId, ClientIP, Operation, UserType, RecordType, OfficeWorkload, Parameters, Url
| extend Name = tostring(split(UserId, '@', 0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserId, '@', 1)[0])
| extend timestamp = OfficeActivity_TimeGenerated

Declared entities

AccountIPURL

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
795d43a3-6edc-4c99-971f-00d05841e5ac
Additional source files 2Solutions/Threat Intelligence (NEW)/Analytic Rules/EmailEntity_OfficeActivity.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Threat Intelligence (NEW)/Data/Solution_ThreatIntelligenceUpdated.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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