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Accessed files shared by temporary external user
Description
'This detection identifies when an external user is added to a Team or Teams chat and shares a file which is accessed by many users (>10) and the users is removed within short period of time. This might be an indicator of suspicious activity.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 2.1.1
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- 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 fileAccessThrehold = 10;
OfficeActivity
| where OfficeWorkload =~ "MicrosoftTeams"
| where Operation =~ "MemberAdded"
| extend MemberAdded = tostring(parse_json(Members)[0].UPN)
| where MemberAdded contains ("#EXT#")
| project TimeAdded=TimeGenerated, Operation, MemberAdded, UserWhoAdded = UserId, TeamName
| join kind = inner (
OfficeActivity
| where OfficeWorkload =~ "MicrosoftTeams"
| where Operation =~ "MemberRemoved"
| extend MemberAdded = tostring(parse_json(Members)[0].UPN)
| where MemberAdded contains ("#EXT#")
| project TimeDeleted=TimeGenerated, Operation, MemberAdded, UserWhoDeleted = UserId, TeamName
) on MemberAdded
| where TimeDeleted > TimeAdded
| join kind=inner (
OfficeActivity
| where RecordType == "SharePointFileOperation"
| where SourceRelativeUrl has "Microsoft Teams Chat Files"
| where Operation == "FileUploaded"
| extend MemberAdded = UserId
| join kind = inner (
OfficeActivity
| where RecordType == "SharePointFileOperation"
| where Operation == "FileAccessed"
| where SourceRelativeUrl has "Microsoft Teams Chat Files"
| summarize FileAccessCount = count() by OfficeObjectId
| where FileAccessCount > fileAccessThrehold
) on $left.OfficeObjectId == $right.OfficeObjectId
)on MemberAdded
| project-away MemberAdded1, MemberAdded2, OfficeObjectId1, Operation1, Operation2, TeamName1, TeamName2
| extend MemberAddedAccountName = tostring(split(MemberAdded, "@")[0]), MemberAddedAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(MemberAdded, "@")[1])
| extend UserWhoAddedAccountName = tostring(split(UserWhoAdded, "@")[0]), UserWhoAddedAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserWhoAdded, "@")[1])
| extend UserWhoDeletedAccountName = tostring(split(UserWhoDeleted, "@")[0]), UserWhoDeletedAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserWhoDeleted, "@")[1])
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
7ca9800↗- Source identifier
bff058b2-500e-4ae5-bb49-a5b1423cbd5b
Additional source files 3
Solutions/Microsoft 365/Analytic Rules/External User added to Team and immediately uploads file.yamlsource ↗Detections/OfficeActivity/External User added to Team and immediately uploads file.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Microsoft 365/Data/Solution_Office365.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC