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Abnormal Deny Rate for Source IP
Description
'Identifies abnormal deny rate for specific source IP to destination IP based on the normal average and standard deviation learned during a configured period. This can indicate potential exfiltration, initial access or C2, where attacker tries to exploit the same vulnerability on machines in the organization, but is being blocked by firewall rules.
Configurable Parameters:
- Minimum of stds threshold - the number of stds to use in the threshold calculation. Default is set to 3.
- Learning period time - learning period for threshold calculation in days. Default is set to 5.
- Bin time - learning buckets time in hours. Default is set to 1 hour.
- Minimum threshold - minimum threshold for alert. Default is set to 5.
- Minimum bucket threshold - minimum learning buckets threshold for alert. Default is set to 5.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.1.3
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 25h
- 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 LearningPeriod = 1d;
let RunTime = 1h;
let StartLearningPeriod = LearningPeriod + RunTime;
let EndRunTime = RunTime - 1h;
let BinTime = 1h;
let NumOfStdsThreshold = 3;
let MinThreshold = 5.0;
let MinLearningBuckets = 5;
// Restrict unioned tables to the full analysis window to avoid full-table scans
let FullWindowStart = ago(StartLearningPeriod);
let FullWindowEnd = now();
let TrafficLogs = (union isfuzzy=true
(AzureDiagnostics
| where TimeGenerated between (FullWindowStart .. FullWindowEnd)
| where OperationName == "AzureFirewallApplicationRuleLog" or OperationName == "AzureFirewallNetworkRuleLog"
| parse msg_s with * "from " SourceIp ":" SourcePort:int " to " Fqdn ":" DestinationPort:int ". " * "Action: " Action "." *
| where Action == "Deny"
| where isnotempty(Fqdn) and isnotempty(SourceIp)),
(AZFWNetworkRule
| where TimeGenerated between (FullWindowStart .. FullWindowEnd)
| extend Fqdn = DestinationIp
| where Action == "Deny"
| where isnotempty(Fqdn) and isnotempty(SourceIp)),
(AZFWFlowTrace
| where TimeGenerated between (FullWindowStart .. FullWindowEnd)
| extend Fqdn = DestinationIp
| where Action == "Deny"
| where isnotempty(Fqdn) and isnotempty(SourceIp)),
(AZFWIdpsSignature
| where TimeGenerated between (FullWindowStart .. FullWindowEnd)
| extend Fqdn = DestinationIp
| where Action == "Deny"
| where isnotempty(Fqdn) and isnotempty(SourceIp)),
(AZFWApplicationRule
| where TimeGenerated between (FullWindowStart .. FullWindowEnd)
| where Action == "Deny"
| where isnotempty(Fqdn) and isnotempty(SourceIp)));
let LearningSrcIpDenyRate = (TrafficLogs
| where TimeGenerated between (ago(StartLearningPeriod) .. ago(RunTime))
| summarize count() by SourceIp, bin(TimeGenerated, BinTime), Fqdn
| summarize LearningTimeSrcIpDenyRateAvg = avg(count_), LearningTimeSrcIpDenyRateStd = stdev(count_), LearningTimeBuckets = count() by SourceIp, Fqdn
| where LearningTimeBuckets > MinLearningBuckets);
let AlertTimeSrcIpDenyRate = (TrafficLogs
| where TimeGenerated between (ago(RunTime) .. ago(EndRunTime))
| summarize AlertTimeSrcIpDenyRateCount = count() by SourceIp, Fqdn);
AlertTimeSrcIpDenyRate
| join kind=leftouter (LearningSrcIpDenyRate) on SourceIp, Fqdn
| extend LearningThreshold = max_of(LearningTimeSrcIpDenyRateAvg + NumOfStdsThreshold * LearningTimeSrcIpDenyRateStd, MinThreshold)
| where AlertTimeSrcIpDenyRateCount > LearningThreshold
| project SourceIp, Fqdn, AlertTimeSrcIpDenyRateCount, LearningTimeBuckets, LearningThreshold
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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/Azure Firewall/Analytic Rules/Azure Firewall - Abnormal Deny Rate for Source IP.yaml ↗
- Commit
7ca9800↗- Source identifier
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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