↳ GitHub sourceAnalytics ruleMedium
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
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
ffcd575b-3d54-482a-a6d8-d0de13b6ac63
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC