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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

Declared entities

AccountURL

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
a2e36ce0-da4d-4b6e-88c6-4e40161c5bfc
Additional source files 3Solutions/Threat Intelligence/Analytic Rules/EmailEntity_SecurityAlert.yamlsource ↗Detections/ThreatIntelligenceIndicator/EmailEntity_SecurityAlert.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Threat Intelligence/Data/Solution_ThreatIntelligenceTemplateSpec.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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