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TI map Email entity to SecurityAlert
Description
'Identifies a match in SecurityAlert table from any Email IOC from TI which will extend coverage to datatypes such as MCAS, StorageThreatProtection and many others'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.2.8
- 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-.]+$';
ThreatIntelligenceIndicator
//Filtering the table for Email related IOCs
| where isnotempty(EmailSenderAddress)
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(ioc_lookBack)
| summarize LatestIndicatorTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by IndicatorId
| where Active == true and ExpirationDateTime > now()
// 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 (
SecurityAlert
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack)
| extend MSTI = case(AlertName has "TI map" and VendorName == "Microsoft" and ProductName == 'Azure Sentinel', true, false)
| where MSTI == false
// Converting Entities into dynamic data type and use mv-expand to unpack the array
| extend EntitiesDynamicArray = parse_json(Entities) | mv-expand EntitiesDynamicArray
// Parsing relevant entity column to filter type account and creating new column by combining account and UPNSuffix
| extend Entitytype = tostring(parse_json(EntitiesDynamicArray).Type), EntityName = tostring(parse_json(EntitiesDynamicArray).Name),
EntityUPNSuffix = tostring(parse_json(EntitiesDynamicArray).UPNSuffix)
| where Entitytype =~ "account"
| extend EntityEmail = tolower(strcat(EntityName, "@", EntityUPNSuffix))
| where EntityEmail matches regex emailregex
| extend Alert_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
)
on $left.EmailSenderAddress == $right.EntityEmail
| where Alert_TimeGenerated < ExpirationDateTime
| summarize Alert_TimeGenerated = arg_max(Alert_TimeGenerated, *) by IndicatorId, AlertName
| project Alert_TimeGenerated, Description, ActivityGroupNames, IndicatorId, ThreatType, Url, ExpirationDateTime, ConfidenceScore,
EmailSenderName, EmailRecipient, EmailSourceDomain, EmailSourceIpAddress, EmailSubject, FileHashValue, FileHashType, EntityEmail, AlertName, AlertType,
AlertSeverity, Entities, ProviderName, VendorName
| extend Name = tostring(split(EntityEmail, '@', 0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(EntityEmail, '@', 1)[0])
| extend timestamp = Alert_TimeGenerated
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Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
a2e36ce0-da4d-4b6e-88c6-4e40161c5bfc
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC