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High risk Office operation conducted by IP Address that recently attempted to log into a disabled account

Description

'It is possible that a disabled user account is compromised and another account on the same IP is used to perform operations that are not typical for that user. The query filters the SigninLogs for entries where ResultType is indicates a disabled account and the TimeGenerated is within a defined time range. It then summarizes these entries by IPAddress and AppId, calculating various statistics such as number of login attempts, distinct UPNs, App IDs etc and joins these results with another set of results from SigninLogs, filtering for entries with less than normal number of successful sign-ins. It then filters out entries where there were no successful sign-ins or where successful sign-ins did not occur within the same lookback period as the failed sign-ins, later projecting relevant fields by the count of login attempts, and expands the set of successful sign-ins into individual events. Finally, it joins these results with entries from OfficeActivity where certain operations deemed rare and high risk have been performed, ensuring their occurrance within a certain time range of the successful sign-ins.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.1
Query frequency
1d
Query period
8d
Trigger
gt 0

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Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

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KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let threshold = 100;
let timeRange = ago(7d);
let timeBuffer = 1;
SigninLogs 
| where TimeGenerated > timeRange
| where ResultType == "50057" 
| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated), disabledAccountLoginAttempts = count(), 
disabledAccountsTargeted = dcount(UserPrincipalName), applicationsTargeted = dcount(AppDisplayName), disabledAccountSet = make_set(UserPrincipalName), 
applicationSet = make_set(AppDisplayName) by IPAddress, AppId
| order by disabledAccountLoginAttempts desc
| join kind=inner (
    // IPs are considered suspicious - and any related successful sign-ins are detected
    SigninLogs
    | where TimeGenerated > timeRange
    | where ResultType == 0
    | summarize successSigninStart = min(TimeGenerated), successSigninEnd = max(TimeGenerated), successfulAccountSigninCount = dcount(UserPrincipalName), successfulAccountSigninSet = make_set(UserPrincipalName, 15) by IPAddress
    // Assume IPs associated with sign-ins from 100+ distinct user accounts are safe
    | where successfulAccountSigninCount < threshold
) on IPAddress  
// IPs where attempts to authenticate as disabled user accounts originated, and had a non-zero success rate for some other account
| where successfulAccountSigninCount != 0
// Successful Account Signins occur within the same lookback period as the failed 
| extend SuccessBeforeFailure = iff(successSigninStart >= StartTime and successSigninEnd <= EndTime, true, false)  
| project StartTime, EndTime, IPAddress, disabledAccountLoginAttempts, disabledAccountsTargeted, disabledAccountSet, applicationSet, 
successfulAccountSigninCount, successfulAccountSigninSet, successSigninStart, successSigninEnd, AppId
| order by disabledAccountLoginAttempts
// Break up the string of Succesfully signed into accounts into individual events
| mvexpand successfulAccountSigninSet
| extend JoinedOnIp = IPAddress
| join kind = inner (
      OfficeActivity
    | where TimeGenerated > timeRange
    | where Operation in~ ( "Add-MailboxPermission", "Add-MailboxFolderPermission", "Set-Mailbox", "New-ManagementRoleAssignment", "New-InboxRule", "Set-InboxRule", "Set-TransportRule") and not(UserId has_any ('NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM (Microsoft.Exchange.ServiceHost)', 'NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM (w3wp)', 'devilfish-applicationaccount'))
    // Remove port from the end of the IP and/or square brackets around IP, if they exist 
    | extend JoinedOnIp = case(
      ClientIP matches regex @'\[((25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\]-\d{1,5}', tostring(extract('\\[([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)\\]-[0-9]+', 1, ClientIP)),
      ClientIP matches regex @'\[((25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\]', tostring(extract('\\[([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)\\]', 1, ClientIP)),  
      ClientIP matches regex @'(((25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?))-\d{1,5}', tostring(extract('([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)-[0-9]+', 1, ClientIP)),
      ClientIP matches regex @'((25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(25[0-5]2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)', ClientIP,       
      ClientIP matches regex @'\[((?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}::?){1,8}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})\]-\d{1,5}', tostring(extract('\\[((?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}::?){1,8}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|\\d{1,3}(?:\\.\\d{1,3}){3})\\]-[0-9]+', 1, ClientIP)),
      ClientIP matches regex @'\[((?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}::?){1,8}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})\]', tostring(extract('\\[((?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}::?){1,8}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|\\d{1,3}(?:\\.\\d{1,3}){3})\\]', 1, ClientIP)),  
      ClientIP matches regex @'((?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}::?){1,8}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})-\d{1,5}', tostring(extract('((?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}::?){1,8}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|\\d{1,3}(?:\\.\\d{1,3}){3})-[0-9]+', 1, ClientIP)),
      ClientIP matches regex @'((?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}::?){1,8}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})', ClientIP,
      "")
    | where isnotempty(JoinedOnIp)
    | extend OfficeTimeStamp = ElevationTime, UserPrincipalName = UserId
) on JoinedOnIp
// Rare and risky operations only happen within a certain time range of the successful sign-in
| where OfficeTimeStamp >= successSigninStart and datetime_diff('day', OfficeTimeStamp, successSigninEnd) <= timeBuffer
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName, "@")[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName, "@")[1])

Declared entities

AccountIPCloudApplication

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Source identifier
9adbd1c3-a4be-44ef-ac2f-503fd25692ee
Additional source files 1Detections/MultipleDataSources/DisabledAccIPSigninWithRareRiskyOps.yamlsource ↗
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