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Distributed Password cracking attempts in Microsoft Entra ID
Description
'Identifies distributed password cracking attempts from the Microsoft Entra ID SigninLogs.
The query looks for unusually high number of failed password attempts coming from multiple locations for a user account.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/reference-sign-ins-error-codes
50053 Account is locked because the user tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect user ID or password.
50055 Invalid password, entered expired password.
50056 Invalid or null password - Password does not exist in store for this user.
50126 Invalid username or password, or invalid on-premises username or password.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.5
- 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.
let s_threshold = 30;
let l_threshold = 3;
let aadFunc = (tableName:string){
table(tableName)
| where OperationName =~ "Sign-in activity"
// Error codes that we want to look at as they are related to the use of incorrect password.
| where ResultType in ("50126", "50053" , "50055", "50056")
| extend DeviceDetail = todynamic(DeviceDetail), Status = todynamic(DeviceDetail), LocationDetails = todynamic(LocationDetails)
| extend OS = DeviceDetail.operatingSystem, Browser = DeviceDetail.browser
| extend StatusCode = tostring(Status.errorCode), StatusDetails = tostring(Status.additionalDetails)
| extend LocationString = strcat(tostring(LocationDetails.countryOrRegion), "/", tostring(LocationDetails.state), "/", tostring(LocationDetails.city))
| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated), LocationCount=dcount(LocationString), Location = make_set(LocationString,100),
IPAddress = make_set(IPAddress,100), IPAddressCount = dcount(IPAddress), AppDisplayName = make_set(AppDisplayName,100), ResultDescription = make_set(ResultDescription,50),
Browser = make_set(Browser,20), OS = make_set(OS,20), SigninCount = count() by UserPrincipalName, Type
// Setting a generic threshold - Can be different for different environment
| where SigninCount > s_threshold and LocationCount >= l_threshold
| extend Location = tostring(Location), IPAddress = tostring(IPAddress), AppDisplayName = tostring(AppDisplayName), ResultDescription = tostring(ResultDescription), Browser = tostring(Browser), OS = tostring(OS)
| extend Name = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])};
let aadSignin = aadFunc("SigninLogs");
let aadNonInt = aadFunc("AADNonInteractiveUserSignInLogs");
union isfuzzy=true aadSignin, aadNonInt
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Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
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GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC