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Potential Remote Desktop Tunneling
Description
'This query detects remote desktop authentication attempts with a localhost source address, which can indicate a tunneled login.
Ref: https://www.mandiant.com/resources/bypassing-network-restrictions-through-rdp-tunneling'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.4
- 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.
SecurityEvent
| where EventID in (4624,4625) and LogonType in (10) and IpAddress in ("::1","127.0.0.1")
| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated) by EventID, Computer, TargetUserName, TargetLogonId, LogonType, IpAddress
| extend Name=tostring(split(TargetUserName, "@")[0]), UPNSuffix=tostring(split(TargetUserName, "@")[1])
| extend HostName = iif(Computer has '.',substring(Computer,0,indexof(Computer,'.')),Computer) , DnsDomain = iif(Computer has '.',substring(Computer,indexof(Computer,'.')+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
9800e51↗- Source identifier
d2e8fd50-8d66-11ec-b909-0242ac120002
Additional source files 3
Solutions/Endpoint Threat Protection Essentials/Analytic Rules/PotentialRemoteDesktopTunneling.yamlsource ↗Detections/SecurityEvent/PotentialRemoteDesktopTunneling.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Endpoint Threat Protection Essentials/Data/Solution_EndpointThreatProtectionEssentials.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC