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External guest invitation followed by Microsoft Entra ID PowerShell signin

Description

'By default guests have capability to invite more external guest users, guests also can do suspicious Microsoft Entra ID enumeration. This detection look at guest users, who have been invited or have invited recently, who also are logging via various PowerShell CLI. Ref : 'https://danielchronlund.com/2021/11/18/scary-azure-ad-tenant-enumeration-using-regular-b2b-guest-accounts/'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.3
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
1d
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 queryfrequency = 1h;
let queryperiod = 1d;
AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(queryperiod)
| where OperationName in ("Invite external user", "Bulk invite users - started (bulk)", "Invite external user with reset invitation status")
| extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
| extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
| extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| extend InitiatedBy = iff(isnotempty(InitiatingUserPrincipalName), InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAppName)
// Uncomment the following line to filter events where the inviting user was a guest user
//| where InitiatedBy has_any ("live.com#", "#EXT#")
| mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on 
  (
      where TargetResource.type =~ "User"
      | extend InvitedUser = tostring(TargetResource.userPrincipalName)
  )
| mv-expand UserToCompare = pack_array(InitiatedBy, InvitedUser) to typeof(string)
| where UserToCompare has_any ("live.com#", "#EXT#")
| extend
    parsedUser = replace_string(tolower(iff(UserToCompare startswith "live.com#", tostring(split(UserToCompare, "#")[1]), tostring(split(UserToCompare, "#EXT#")[0]))), "@", "_"),
    InvitationTime = TimeGenerated
| join (
    (union isfuzzy=true SigninLogs, AADNonInteractiveUserSignInLogs)
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(queryfrequency)
    | where UserType != "Member"
    | where AppId has_any                       // This web may contain a list of these apps: https://msshells.net/
        ("1b730954-1685-4b74-9bfd-dac224a7b894",// Azure Active Directory PowerShell
         "04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46",// Microsoft Azure CLI
         "1950a258-227b-4e31-a9cf-717495945fc2",// Microsoft Azure PowerShell
         "a0c73c16-a7e3-4564-9a95-2bdf47383716",// Microsoft Exchange Online Remote PowerShell
         "fb78d390-0c51-40cd-8e17-fdbfab77341b",// Microsoft Exchange REST API Based Powershell
         "d1ddf0e4-d672-4dae-b554-9d5bdfd93547",// Microsoft Intune PowerShell
         "9bc3ab49-b65d-410a-85ad-de819febfddc",// Microsoft SharePoint Online Management Shell
         "12128f48-ec9e-42f0-b203-ea49fb6af367",// MS Teams Powershell Cmdlets
         "23d8f6bd-1eb0-4cc2-a08c-7bf525c67bcd",// Power BI PowerShell
         "31359c7f-bd7e-475c-86db-fdb8c937548e",// PnP Management Shell
         "90f610bf-206d-4950-b61d-37fa6fd1b224",// Aadrm Admin Powershell
         "14d82eec-204b-4c2f-b7e8-296a70dab67e",// Microsoft Graph PowerShell
         "9cee029c-6210-4654-90bb-17e6e9d36617" // Power Platform CLI - pac"
        )
    | summarize arg_min(TimeGenerated, *) by UserPrincipalName
    | extend
        parsedUser = replace_string(UserPrincipalName, "@", "_"),
        SigninTime = TimeGenerated
    )
    on parsedUser
| project InvitationTime, InitiatedBy, InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId, InitiatingIpAddress, OperationName, InvitedUser, SigninTime, SigninCategory = Category1, SigninUserPrincipalName = UserPrincipalName, AppDisplayName, ResourceDisplayName, UserAgent, InvitationAdditionalDetails = AdditionalDetails, InvitationTargetResources = TargetResources
| extend InvitedUserName = tostring(split(InvitedUser,'@',0)[0]), InvitedUserUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InvitedUser,'@',1)[0]), 
         InitiatedByName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), InitiatedByUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])

Declared entities

AccountIP

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
acc4c247-aaf7-494b-b5da-17f18863878a
Additional source files 3Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Analytic Rules/UnusualGuestActivity.yamlsource ↗Detections/MultipleDataSources/UnusualGuestActivity.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Data/Solution_AAD.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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