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Suspicious AWS console logins by credential access alerts
Description
'This query aims to detect instances of successful AWS console logins that align with high-severity credential access or Initial Access alerts generated by Defender Products.
Specifically, it focuses on scenarios where the successful login takes place within a 60-minute timeframe of the high-severity alert. The login is considered relevant if it originates from an IP address associated with potential attackers.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Query frequency
- 1d
- 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.
SecurityAlert
// Filtering alerts based on Microsoft product names
| where ProductName in ("Microsoft 365 Defender", "Azure Active Directory", "Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection", "Microsoft Cloud App Security","Azure Active Directory Identity Protection", "Microsoft Defender ATP")
// Narrowing down alerts to specific tactics
| where Tactics in("CredentialAccess", "InitialAccess")
// Focusing on high-severity alerts
| where AlertSeverity == "High"
// Parsing and extending the 'Entities' column as JSON objects
| extend Entities = parse_json(Entities)
// Exploring IP entities within the alert entities
| mv-apply Entity = Entities on
(
where Entity.Type == 'ip'
| extend EntityIp = tostring(Entity.Address)
)
// Exploring account entities within the alert entities
| mv-apply Entity = Entities on
(
where Entity.Type == 'account'
| extend AccountObjectId = tostring(Entity.AadUserId)
)
// Filtering out alerts with missing IP or account information
| where isnotempty(EntityIp) and isnotempty(AccountObjectId)
// Summarizing relevant fields for further analysis
| summarize
by
AlertName,
ProductName,
ProviderName,
AlertSeverity,
EntityIp,
Tactics,
Techniques,
AlertTime= bin(TimeGenerated, 1min),
AccountObjectId,
AlertTimeGenerated=TimeGenerated
// Joining with IdentityInfo to obtain additional account details
| join kind=inner (
IdentityInfo
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(1d)
| distinct AccountObjectId, AccountUPN=tolower(AccountUPN)
)
on AccountObjectId
|extend Name = tostring(split(AccountUPN,'@')[0]), UPNSuffix =tostring(split(AccountUPN,'@')[1])
// Joining with AWSCloudTrail data to correlate AWS console logins
| join kind=inner (
AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName == "ConsoleLogin"
| extend CTUPN= tolower(tostring(tolower(split(UserIdentityArn, "/", 2)[0])))
| extend ActionType= tostring(parse_json(ResponseElements).ConsoleLogin)
| where ActionType == "Success"
| extend AWSTime= bin(TimeGenerated, 1min)
| project
EventName,
EventSource,
EventTypeName,
RecipientAccountId,
ResponseElements,
SessionMfaAuthenticated,
SourceIpAddress,
TimeGenerated,
UserAgent,
UserIdentityArn,
UserIdentityType,
CTUPN,
AWSTime,
UserIdentityUserName
)
on $left.EntityIp == $right.SourceIpAddress
// Filtering login event after the Alert generation time
| where AlertTimeGenerated >= AWSTime
// Calculating the time difference between alert generation and AWS login
| extend timediff = datetime_diff('minute', AlertTimeGenerated, TimeGenerated)
// Filtering alerts with a time difference of up to 60 minutes
| where timediff between ((-60)..(60))
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
b51fe620-62ad-4ed2-9d40-5c97c0a8231f
Additional source files 2
Solutions/Multi Cloud Attack Coverage Essentials - Resource Abuse/Analytic Rules/SuspiciousAWSConsolLoginByCredentialAceessAlerts.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Multi Cloud Attack Coverage Essentials - Resource Abuse/Data/Solution_Multi Cloud Attack Coverage Essentials - Resource Abuse.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC