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App Gateway WAF - Scanner Detection

Description

'Identifies a match for a Scanner detection user agent based attack in the App Gateway WAF logs. The threshold value in the query can be changed as per your infrastructure's requirements. References: https://owasp.org/www-community/Vulnerability_Scanning_Tools'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.3
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
6h
Query period
6h
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 Threshold = 3;
AGWFirewallLogs
| where Action == "Matched"
| where Message contains "Found User-Agent associated with security scanner"
| project TransactionId, Hostname, RequestUri, TimeGenerated, ClientIp, Message, DetailedMessage, DetailedData
| join kind = inner(
AGWFirewallLogs
| where Action == "Blocked"
) on TransactionId
| extend Uri = strcat(Hostname,RequestUri)
| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated), TransactionID = make_set(TransactionId), Message = make_set(Message), Detail_Message = make_set(DetailedMessage), Detail_Data = make_set(DetailedData), Total_TransactionId = dcount(TransactionId) by ClientIp, Uri, Action
| where Total_TransactionId >= Threshold

Declared entities

URLIP

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
9b8dd8fd-f192-42eb-84f6-541920400a7a
Additional source files 2Solutions/Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)/Analytic Rules/App-GW-WAF-Scanner-detection.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)/Data/Solution_AzureWAF.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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