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Linked Malicious Storage Artifacts
Description
'This query identifies the additional files uploaded by the same IP address which triggered a malware alert for malicious content upload on Azure Blob or File Storage Container.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.3
- Declared status
- Available
- 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.
//Collect the alert events
let alertData = SecurityAlert
| where DisplayName has "Potential malware uploaded to"
| extend Entities = parse_json(Entities)
| mv-expand Entities;
//Parse the IP address data
let ipData = alertData
| where Entities['Type'] =~ "ip"
| extend AttackerIP = tostring(Entities['Address']), AttackerCountry = tostring(Entities['Location']['CountryName']);
//Parse the file data
let FileData = alertData
| where Entities['Type'] =~ "file"
| extend MaliciousFileDirectory = tostring(Entities['Directory']), MaliciousFileName = tostring(Entities['Name']), MaliciousFileHashes = tostring(Entities['FileHashes']);
//Combine the File and IP data together
ipData
| join (FileData) on VendorOriginalId
| summarize by TimeGenerated, AttackerIP, AttackerCountry, DisplayName, ResourceId, AlertType, MaliciousFileDirectory, MaliciousFileName, MaliciousFileHashes
//Create a type column so we can track if it was a File storage or blobl storage upload
| extend type = iff(DisplayName has "file", "File", "Blob")
| join (
union
StorageFileLogs,
StorageBlobLogs
//File upload operations
| where OperationName =~ "PutBlob" or OperationName =~ "PutRange"
//Parse out the uploader IP
| extend ClientIP = tostring(split(CallerIpAddress, ":", 0)[0])
//Extract the filename from the Uri
| extend FileName = extract(@"\/([\w\-. ]+)\?", 1, Uri)
//Base64 decode the MD5 filehash, we will encounter non-ascii hex so string operations don't work
//We can work around this by making it an array then converting it to hex from an int
| extend base64Char = base64_decode_toarray(ResponseMd5)
| mv-expand base64Char
| extend hexChar = tohex(toint(base64Char))
| extend hexChar = iff(strlen(hexChar) < 2, strcat("0", hexChar), hexChar)
| extend SourceTable = iff(OperationName has "range", "StorageFileLogs", "StorageBlobLogs")
| summarize make_list(hexChar, 1000) by CorrelationId, ResponseMd5, FileName, AccountName, TimeGenerated, RequestBodySize, ClientIP, SourceTable
| extend Md5Hash = strcat_array(list_hexChar, "")
//Pack the file information the summarise into a ClientIP row
| extend p = pack("FileName", FileName, "FileSize", RequestBodySize, "Md5Hash", Md5Hash, "Time", TimeGenerated, "SourceTable", SourceTable)
| summarize UploadedFileInfo=make_list(p, 10000), FilesUploaded=count() by ClientIP
| join kind=leftouter (
union
StorageFileLogs,
StorageBlobLogs
| where OperationName =~ "DeleteFile" or OperationName =~ "DeleteBlob"
| extend ClientIP = tostring(split(CallerIpAddress, ":", 0)[0])
| extend FileName = extract(@"\/([\w\-. ]+)\?", 1, Uri)
| extend SourceTable = iff(OperationName has "range", "StorageFileLogs", "StorageBlobLogs")
| extend p = pack("FileName", FileName, "Time", TimeGenerated, "SourceTable", SourceTable)
| summarize DeletedFileInfo=make_list(p, 10000), FilesDeleted=count() by ClientIP
) on ClientIP
) on $left.AttackerIP == $right.ClientIP
| mvexpand UploadedFileInfo
| extend LinkedMaliciousFileName = tostring(UploadedFileInfo.FileName)
| extend LinkedMaliciousFileHash = tostring(UploadedFileInfo.Md5Hash)
| extend HashAlgorithm = "MD5"
| project AlertTimeGenerated = TimeGenerated, LinkedMaliciousFileName, LinkedMaliciousFileHash, HashAlgorithm, AlertType, AttackerIP, AttackerCountry, MaliciousFileDirectory, MaliciousFileName, FilesUploaded, UploadedFileInfo
Declared entities
Related content
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Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- File
- Solutions/Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps/Analytic Rules/AdditionalFilesUploadedByActor.yaml ↗
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
b9e3b9f8-a406-4151-9891-e5ff1ddd8c1d
Additional source files 3
Solutions/Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps/Analytic Rules/AdditionalFilesUploadedByActor.yamlsource ↗Detections/MultipleDataSources/AdditionalFilesUploadedByActor.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps/Data/Solution_Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC