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Medium severity malicious activity detected

Description

Identifies medium severity malicious activity in Azure Firewall IDPS logs.
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.1
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
24h
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 TimeWindow   = 90d;    
let HitThreshold = 10;
let MinSeverity  = 2;
let EnableCategoryFilter    = true;
let EnableDescriptionFilter = false;
let EnableActionFilter      = false;
let CategoriesOfInterest = dynamic([
    "Possibly Unwanted Program Detected",
    "Possible Social Engineering Attempted",
    "Crypto Currency Mining Activity Detected",
    "A suspicious filename was detected",
    "A system call was detected"
]);
let DescriptionsOfInterest = dynamic([
    "pup-activity",
    "social-engineering",
    "coin-mining",
    "suspicious-filename-detect",
    "system-call-detect"
]);
let MatchActions = dynamic(["Deny", "alert"]);
AZFWIdpsSignature
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(TimeWindow)
| where Severity >= MinSeverity
| where (EnableCategoryFilter == false) or (Category has_any (CategoriesOfInterest))
| where (EnableDescriptionFilter == false) or (Description has_any (DescriptionsOfInterest))
| where (EnableActionFilter == false) or (Action in~ (MatchActions))
| summarize
    StartTime   = min(TimeGenerated),
    EndTime     = max(TimeGenerated),
    TotalHits   = count(),
    MaxSeverity = max(Severity),
    Actions     = make_set(Action, 5),
    Signatures  = make_set(SignatureId, 20),
    Description = make_set(substring(tostring(Description), 0, 120), 3)
    by SourceIp, ThreatCategory = Category
| where TotalHits >= HitThreshold
| project
    StartTime,
    EndTime,
    SourceIp,
    ThreatCategory,
    TotalHits,
    MaxSeverity,
    Actions,
    Signatures,
    Description
| order by MaxSeverity desc, TotalHits desc

Declared entities

IP

Related content

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
dfbe3963-42fb-4ebe-a00c-1cc44e2aa9f0
Additional source files 2Solutions/Azure Firewall/Analytic Rules/Azure Firewall - Medium severity malicious activity detected.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Azure Firewall/Data/Solution_AzureFirewall.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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