Solutions/Threat Intelligence (NEW)/Analytic Rules/EmailEntity_SecurityAlert.yaml

id: 4b451ade-ed28-48e2-8fe7-60ae83ab2fa5
name: TI map Email entity to SecurityAlert
description: |
  'Identifies a match in SecurityAlert table from any Email IOC from TI which will extend coverage to datatypes such as MCAS, StorageThreatProtection and many others'
severity: Medium
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: AzureSecurityCenter
    dataTypes:
      - SecurityAlert
  - connectorId: ThreatIntelligence
    dataTypes:
      - ThreatIntelligenceIndicator
  - connectorId: ThreatIntelligenceTaxii
    dataTypes:
      - ThreatIntelligenceIndicator
  - connectorId: MicrosoftDefenderThreatIntelligence
    dataTypes:
      - ThreatIntelligenceIndicator
queryFrequency: 1h
queryPeriod: 14d
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
tactics:
  - InitialAccess
relevantTechniques:
  - T1566
query: |
  let dt_lookBack = 1h;
  let ioc_lookBack = 14d;
  let emailregex = @'^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$';
  ThreatIntelIndicators
  //Filtering the table for Email related IOCs
  | extend IndicatorType = replace(@"\[|\]|\""", "", tostring(split(ObservableKey, ":", 0)))
  | where isnotempty(IndicatorType) and IndicatorType == "email-addr"
  | extend EmailSenderAddress = ObservableValue
  | extend EmailSourceDomain = substring(EmailSenderAddress, indexof(EmailSenderAddress, "@") + 1, strlen(EmailSenderAddress) - indexof(EmailSenderAddress, "@") - 1)
  | extend TrafficLightProtocolLevel = tostring(parse_json(AdditionalFields).TLPLevel)
  | extend IndicatorId = tostring(split(Id, "--")[2])
  | extend Url = iff(ObservableKey == "url:value", ObservableValue, "")
  | where isnotempty(EmailSenderAddress)
  | where TimeGenerated >= ago(ioc_lookBack)
  | summarize LatestIndicatorTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by Id
  | where IsActive == true and ValidUntil > now()
    | project-reorder *, TrafficLightProtocolLevel, EmailSenderAddress, EmailSourceDomain, Type
  // 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 (
      SecurityAlert
      | where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack)
      | extend MSTI = case(AlertName has "TI map" and VendorName == "Microsoft" and ProductName == 'Azure Sentinel', true, false)
      | where MSTI == false
      // Converting Entities into dynamic data type and use mv-expand to unpack the array
      | extend EntitiesDynamicArray = parse_json(Entities) | mv-expand EntitiesDynamicArray
      // Parsing relevant entity column to filter type account and creating new column by combining account and UPNSuffix
      | extend Entitytype = tostring(parse_json(EntitiesDynamicArray).Type), EntityName = tostring(parse_json(EntitiesDynamicArray).Name),
      EntityUPNSuffix = tostring(parse_json(EntitiesDynamicArray).UPNSuffix)
      | where Entitytype =~ "account"
      | extend EntityEmail = tolower(strcat(EntityName, "@", EntityUPNSuffix))
      | where EntityEmail matches regex emailregex
      | extend Alert_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
  )
  on $left.EmailSenderAddress == $right.EntityEmail
  | where Alert_TimeGenerated < ValidUntil
  | summarize Alert_TimeGenerated = arg_max(Alert_TimeGenerated, *) by Id, AlertName
  | extend Description = tostring(parse_json(Data).description)
  | extend ActivityGroupNames = extract(@"ActivityGroup:(\S+)", 1, tostring(parse_json(Data).labels))
  | project Alert_TimeGenerated, Description, ActivityGroupNames, Id, ValidUntil, Confidence,
  EmailSenderAddress, EntityEmail, AlertName, AlertType,
  AlertSeverity, Entities, ProviderName, VendorName,Url//, EmailRecipient, EmailSourceDomain, EmailSourceIpAddress, EmailSubject, FileHashValue, FileHashType, 
  | extend Name = tostring(split(EntityEmail, '@', 0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(EntityEmail, '@', 1)[0])
  | extend timestamp = Alert_TimeGenerated
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: FullName
        columnName: EntityEmail
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: Name
      - identifier: UPNSuffix
        columnName: UPNSuffix 
  - entityType: URL
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Url
        columnName: Url
version: 1.2.9
kind: Scheduled