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Multiple users email forwarded to same destination

Description

'Identifies when multiple (more than one) users mailboxes are configured to forward to the same destination. This could be an attacker-controlled destination mailbox configured to collect mail from multiple compromised user accounts.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
2.0.3
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1d
Query period
7d
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 queryfrequency = 1d;
let queryperiod = 7d;
OfficeActivity
| where TimeGenerated > ago(queryperiod)
| where OfficeWorkload =~ "Exchange"
//| where Operation in ("Set-Mailbox", "New-InboxRule", "Set-InboxRule")
| where Parameters has_any ("ForwardTo", "RedirectTo", "ForwardingSmtpAddress")
| mv-apply DynamicParameters = todynamic(Parameters) on (summarize ParsedParameters = make_bag(bag_pack(tostring(DynamicParameters.Name), DynamicParameters.Value)))
| evaluate bag_unpack(ParsedParameters, columnsConflict='replace_source')
| extend DestinationMailAddress = tolower(case(
    isnotempty(column_ifexists("ForwardTo", "")), column_ifexists("ForwardTo", ""),
    isnotempty(column_ifexists("RedirectTo", "")), column_ifexists("RedirectTo", ""),
    isnotempty(column_ifexists("ForwardingSmtpAddress", "")), trim_start(@"smtp:", column_ifexists("ForwardingSmtpAddress", "")),
    ""))
| where isnotempty(DestinationMailAddress)
| mv-expand split(DestinationMailAddress, ";")
| extend ClientIPValues = extract_all(@'\[?(::ffff:)?(?P<IPAddress>(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)|[^\]]+)\]?([-:](?P<Port>\d+))?', dynamic(["IPAddress", "Port"]), ClientIP)[0]
| extend ClientIP = tostring(ClientIPValues[0]), Port = tostring(ClientIPValues[1])
| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated), DistinctUserCount = dcount(UserId), UserId = make_set(UserId, 250), Ports = make_set(Port, 250), EventCount = count() by tostring(DestinationMailAddress), ClientIP
| where DistinctUserCount > 1 and EndTime > ago(queryfrequency)
| mv-expand UserId to typeof(string)
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(UserId, "@")[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserId, "@")[1])

Declared entities

AccountIP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
871ba14c-88ef-48aa-ad38-810f26760ca3
Additional source files 3Solutions/Microsoft 365/Analytic Rules/Office_MailForwarding.yamlsource ↗Detections/OfficeActivity/Office_MailForwarding.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Microsoft 365/Data/Solution_Office365.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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