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

id: 0a59051d-aed4-4fb6-bf84-bc80534482b2
name: TI map Email entity to SecurityEvent
description: |
  'Identifies a match in SecurityEvent table from any Email IOC from TI'
severity: Medium
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: ThreatIntelligence
    dataTypes:
      - ThreatIntelligenceIndicator
  - connectorId: ThreatIntelligenceTaxii
    dataTypes:
      - ThreatIntelligenceIndicator
  - connectorId: SecurityEvents
    dataTypes:
      - SecurityEvent
  - connectorId: WindowsSecurityEvents
    dataTypes:
      - SecurityEvents
  - connectorId: WindowsForwardedEvents
    dataTypes:
      - WindowsEvent
  - 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 (
  (union isfuzzy=true
  (SecurityEvent
  | where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack) and isnotempty(TargetUserName)
  //Normalizing the column to lower case for exact match with EmailSenderAddress column
  | extend TargetUserName = tolower(TargetUserName)
  // renaming timestamp column so it is clear the log this came from SecurityEvent table
  | extend SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
  ),
  (WindowsEvent
  | where TimeGenerated >= ago(dt_lookBack)
  | extend TargetUserName = tostring(EventData.TargetUserName)
  | where isnotempty(TargetUserName)
  //Normalizing the column to lower case for exact match with EmailSenderAddress column
  | extend TargetUserName = tolower(TargetUserName)
  // renaming timestamp column so it is clear the log this came from SecurityEvent table
  | extend SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
  ))
  )
  on $left.EmailSenderAddress == $right.TargetUserName
  | where SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated < ValidUntil
  | summarize SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated = arg_max(SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated, *) by Id, TargetUserName
  | extend Description = tostring(parse_json(Data).description)
  | extend ActivityGroupNames = extract(@"ActivityGroup:(\S+)", 1, tostring(parse_json(Data).labels))
  | project SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated, Description, ActivityGroupNames, Id, ValidUntil, Confidence,
  EmailSenderAddress, Computer, EventID, TargetUserName, Activity, IpAddress, AccountType,
  LogonTypeName, LogonProcessName, Status, SubStatus, Url
  | extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, '.', 0)[0]), DnsDomain = tostring(strcat_array(array_slice(split(Computer, '.'), 1, -1), '.'))
  | extend timestamp = SecurityEvent_TimeGenerated
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: TargetUserName
  - entityType: Host
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: HostName
        columnName: HostName
      - identifier: DnsDomain
        columnName: DnsDomain   
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: IpAddress
  - entityType: URL
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Url
        columnName: Url
version: 1.3.8
kind: Scheduled