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Suspicious Login from deleted guest account
Description
' This query will detect logins from guest account which was recently deleted.
For any successful logins from deleted identities should be investigated further if any existing user accounts have been altered or linked to such identity prior deletion'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.5
- Query frequency
- 1h
- 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 query_frequency = 1h;
let query_period = 1d;
AuditLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(query_frequency)
| where Category =~ "UserManagement" and OperationName =~ "Delete user"
| mv-expand TargetResource = TargetResources
| where TargetResource["type"] == "User" and TargetResource["userPrincipalName"] has "#EXT#"
| extend ParsedDeletedUserPrincipalName = extract(@"^[0-9a-f]{32}([^\#]+)\#EXT\#", 1, tostring(TargetResource["userPrincipalName"]))
| extend
Initiator = iif(isnotempty(InitiatedBy["app"]), tostring(InitiatedBy["app"]["displayName"]), tostring(InitiatedBy["user"]["userPrincipalName"])),
InitiatorId = iif(isnotempty(InitiatedBy["app"]), tostring(InitiatedBy["app"]["servicePrincipalId"]), tostring(InitiatedBy["user"]["id"])),
Delete_IPAddress = tostring(InitiatedBy[tostring(bag_keys(InitiatedBy)[0])]["ipAddress"])
| project Delete_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated, Category, Identity, Initiator, Delete_IPAddress, OperationName, Result, ParsedDeletedUserPrincipalName, InitiatedBy, AdditionalDetails, TargetResources, InitiatorId, CorrelationId
| join kind=inner (
SigninLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(query_period)
| where ResultType == 0
| summarize take_any(*) by UserPrincipalName
| extend ParsedUserPrincipalName = translate("@", "_", UserPrincipalName)
| project SigninLogs_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated, UserPrincipalName, UserDisplayName, ResultType, ResultDescription, IPAddress, LocationDetails, AppDisplayName, ResourceDisplayName, ClientAppUsed, UserAgent, DeviceDetail, UserId, UserType, OriginalRequestId, ParsedUserPrincipalName
) on $left.ParsedDeletedUserPrincipalName == $right.ParsedUserPrincipalName
| where SigninLogs_TimeGenerated > Delete_TimeGenerated
| project-away ParsedDeletedUserPrincipalName, ParsedUserPrincipalName
| extend
AccountName = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName, "@")[0]),
AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName, "@")[1])
Declared entities
Related content
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Source provenance
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- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
defe4855-0d33-4362-9557-009237623976
Additional source files 1
Detections/MultipleDataSources/SuspiciousLoginfromDeletedExternalIdentities.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC