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TI map Email entity to PaloAlto CommonSecurityLog

Description

'Identifies a match in CommonSecurityLog table from any Email IOC from TI'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.2.6
Query frequency
1h
Query period
14d
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 dt_lookBack = 1h;
let ioc_lookBack = 14d;
let emailregex = @'^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$';
ThreatIntelligenceIndicator
//Filtering the table for Email related IOCs
| where isnotempty(EmailSenderAddress)
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(ioc_lookBack)
| summarize LatestIndicatorTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by IndicatorId
| where Active == true and ExpirationDateTime > now()
// using innerunique to keep perf fast and result set low, we only need one match to indicate potential malicious activity that needs to be investigated
| join kind=innerunique (
    CommonSecurityLog | where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack) and isnotempty(DestinationUserID)
    // Filtering PAN Logs for specific event type to match relevant email entities
    | where DeviceVendor == "Palo Alto Networks" and  DeviceEventClassID == "wildfire" and ApplicationProtocol in ("smtp","pop3")
    | extend DestinationUserID = tolower(DestinationUserID)
    | where DestinationUserID matches regex emailregex
    | extend CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
)
on $left.EmailSenderAddress == $right.DestinationUserID
| where CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated < ExpirationDateTime
| summarize CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated = arg_max(CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated, *) by IndicatorId, DestinationUserID
| project CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated, Description, ActivityGroupNames, IndicatorId, ThreatType, Url, ExpirationDateTime, ConfidenceScore, EmailSenderName, EmailRecipient,
EmailSourceDomain, EmailSourceIpAddress, EmailSubject, FileHashValue, FileHashType, DestinationUserID, DeviceEventClassID, LogSeverity, DeviceAction, SourceIP, SourcePort,
DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Protocol, ApplicationProtocol
| extend timestamp = CommonSecurityLog_TimeGenerated

Declared entities

AccountIPURL

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
ffcd575b-3d54-482a-a6d8-d0de13b6ac63
Additional source files 3Solutions/Threat Intelligence/Analytic Rules/EmailEntity_PaloAlto.yamlsource ↗Detections/ThreatIntelligenceIndicator/EmailEntity_PaloAlto.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Threat Intelligence/Data/Solution_ThreatIntelligenceTemplateSpec.jsonsolution-membership ↗
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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