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Correlate Unfamiliar sign-in properties & atypical travel alerts

Description

'The combination of an Unfamiliar sign-in properties alert and an Atypical travel alert about the same user within a +10m or -10m window is considered a high severity incident.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.9
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1d
Query period
14d
Trigger
gt 0

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Declared sources

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

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

// We can use this configuration TimeDeltaInMinutes if you want to chnage the time window that we try to match the alerts
let TimeDeltaInMinutes = 10;
let Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps = 
SecurityAlert
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1d)
| where ProductName =~ "Azure Active Directory Identity Protection"
| where AlertName =~ "Unfamiliar sign-in properties"
| mv-expand Entity = todynamic(Entities)
| where Entity.Type =~ "account"
| extend AadTenantId = tostring(Entity.AadTenantId)
| extend AadUserId = tostring(Entity.AadUserId)
| join kind=inner (
IdentityInfo
| distinct AccountTenantId, AccountObjectId, AccountUPN, AccountDisplayName
| extend UserName = AccountDisplayName
| extend UserAccount = AccountUPN
| where isnotempty(AccountDisplayName) and isnotempty(UserAccount)
| project AccountTenantId, AccountObjectId, UserAccount, UserName
)
on
$left.AadTenantId == $right.AccountTenantId,
$left.AadUserId == $right.AccountObjectId
| extend CompromisedEntity = iff(CompromisedEntity == "N/A" or isempty(CompromisedEntity), UserAccount, CompromisedEntity)
| extend Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Time = TimeGenerated
| extend Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Name = AlertName
| extend Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Severity = AlertSeverity
| project AadTenantId, AadUserId, AccountTenantId, AccountObjectId, Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Name, Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Severity, Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Time, UserAccount, UserName
;
let Alert_AtypicalTravels = 
SecurityAlert
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1d)
| where ProductName =~ "Azure Active Directory Identity Protection"
| where AlertName =~ "Atypical travel"
| mv-expand Entity = todynamic(Entities)
| where Entity.Type =~ "account"
| extend AadTenantId = tostring(Entity.AadTenantId)
| extend AadUserId = tostring(Entity.AadUserId)
| join kind=inner (
IdentityInfo
| distinct AccountTenantId, AccountObjectId, AccountUPN, AccountDisplayName
| extend UserName = AccountDisplayName
| extend UserAccount = AccountUPN
| where isnotempty(AccountDisplayName) and isnotempty(UserAccount)
| project AccountTenantId, AccountObjectId, UserAccount, UserName
)
on
$left.AadTenantId == $right.AccountTenantId,
$left.AadUserId == $right.AccountObjectId
| extend CompromisedEntity = iff(CompromisedEntity == "N/A" or isempty(CompromisedEntity), UserAccount, CompromisedEntity)
| extend Alert_AtypicalTravels_Time = TimeGenerated
| extend Alert_AtypicalTravels_Name = AlertName
| extend Alert_AtypicalTravels_Severity = AlertSeverity
| extend ExtendedProperties_json= parse_json(ExtendedProperties)
| extend CurrentLocation = tostring(ExtendedProperties_json.["Current Location"])
| extend PreviousLocation = tostring(ExtendedProperties_json.["Previous Location"])
| extend CurrentIPAddress = tostring(ExtendedProperties_json.["Current IP Address"])
| extend PreviousIPAddress = tostring(ExtendedProperties_json.["Previous IP Address"])
| extend Comments = tostring(ExtendedProperties_json.Comments)
| extend RiskDetail = extract(@"(?i)risk detail:\s*(.+)$", 1, Comments)
| where isempty(RiskDetail) or RiskDetail !contains "admin"
| project AadTenantId, AadUserId, AccountTenantId, AccountObjectId, Alert_AtypicalTravels_Name, Alert_AtypicalTravels_Severity, Alert_AtypicalTravels_Time, CurrentIPAddress, PreviousIPAddress, CurrentLocation, Comments, PreviousLocation, UserAccount, UserName, CompromisedEntity
;
Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps
| join kind=inner Alert_AtypicalTravels on UserAccount
| where abs(datetime_diff('minute', Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Time, Alert_AtypicalTravels_Time)) <= TimeDeltaInMinutes
| extend TimeDelta = Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Time - Alert_AtypicalTravels_Time
| project UserAccount, AadUserId, Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Name, Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Severity, Alert_UnfamiliarSignInProps_Time, Alert_AtypicalTravels_Name, Alert_AtypicalTravels_Severity, Alert_AtypicalTravels_Time, TimeDelta, CurrentLocation, PreviousLocation, CurrentIPAddress, PreviousIPAddress, Comments, UserName
| extend UserEmailName = split(UserAccount,'@')[0], UPNSuffix = split(UserAccount,'@')[1]

Declared entities

AccountIP

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
a3df4a32-4805-4c6d-8699-f3c888af2f67
Additional source files 2Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID Protection/Analytic Rules/CorrelateIPC_Unfamiliar-Atypical.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID Protection/Data/Solution_AzureADIdentityProtection.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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