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This query helps you review all OAuth applications accessing user mail via Graph. It could return a significant number of results depending on how many applications are deployed in the environment.
This query helps hunting for Automated email notifications and suspicious sign-in activity
Intent:
- Use MTP capability to look for insider threat potential risk indicators
- Indicators would then serve as the building block for insider threat risk modeling in subsequent tools
Definition of Insider Threat:
"The potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization's assets to use their access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect the organization."
This collection of queries describes the different indicators that could be used to model and look for patterns suggesting an increased risk of an individual becoming a potential insider threat.
Note: no single indicator should be used as a lone determinant of insider threat activity, but should be part of an overall program to understand the increased risk to your organization's critical assets. This in turn is used to feed an investigation by a formal insider threat program to look at the context associated with the whole person to understand the implication of a set of indicators.
- Use MTP capability to look for insider threat potential risk indicators
- Indicators would then serve as the building block for insider threat risk modeling in subsequent tools
Definition of Insider Threat:
"The potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization's assets to use their access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect the organization."
This collection of queries describes the different indicators that could be used to model and look for patterns suggesting an increased risk of an individual becoming a potential insider threat.
Note: no single indicator should be used as a lone determinant of insider threat activity, but should be part of an overall program to understand the increased risk to your organization's critical assets. This in turn is used to feed an investigation by a formal insider threat program to look at the context associated with the whole person to understand the implication of a set of indicators.
This query make a best-guess detection regarding which removable media device caused an AV detection.
The query is best run over 30 days to get the full USB history.
Get a list of USB AV detections. This assumes any path not beginning with C is a removable/USB device.
The query is best run over 30 days to get the full USB history.
Get a list of USB AV detections. This assumes any path not beginning with C is a removable/USB device.
Intent:
- Use MTP capability to look for insider threat potential risk indicators
- Indicators would then serve as the building block for insider threat risk modeling in subsequent tools
Definition of Insider Threat:
"The potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization's assets to use their access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect the organization."
This collection of queries describes the different indicators that could be used to model and look for patterns suggesting an increased risk of an individual becoming a potential insider threat.
Note: no single indicator should be used as a lone determinant of insider threat activity, but should be part of an overall program to understand the increased risk to your organization's critical assets. This in turn is used to feed an investigation by a formal insider threat program to look at the context associated with the whole person to understand the implication of a set of indicators.
- Use MTP capability to look for insider threat potential risk indicators
- Indicators would then serve as the building block for insider threat risk modeling in subsequent tools
Definition of Insider Threat:
"The potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization's assets to use their access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect the organization."
This collection of queries describes the different indicators that could be used to model and look for patterns suggesting an increased risk of an individual becoming a potential insider threat.
Note: no single indicator should be used as a lone determinant of insider threat activity, but should be part of an overall program to understand the increased risk to your organization's critical assets. This in turn is used to feed an investigation by a formal insider threat program to look at the context associated with the whole person to understand the implication of a set of indicators.
Attackers can use Adfind which is administrative tool to gather information about domain controllers or ADFS servers. They may also rename executables with other benign tools on the system.
The below query will look for Adfind usage in command line arguments irrespective of executable name in short span of time. You can limit query this to your DC and ADFS servers.
Below references talk about suspicious use of adfind by adversaries.
1. AdFind Recon
2. Navigating the MAZE: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures Associated With MAZE Ransomware Incidents
3. Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers
This query is inspired by a Azure Sentinel detection.
The below query will look for Adfind usage in command line arguments irrespective of executable name in short span of time. You can limit query this to your DC and ADFS servers.
Below references talk about suspicious use of adfind by adversaries.
1. AdFind Recon
2. Navigating the MAZE: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures Associated With MAZE Ransomware Incidents
3. Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers
This query is inspired by a Azure Sentinel detection.
'Any Alerts that fired related to a given File during the range of +6h and -3d'
This query was originally published in the threat analytics report, Ransomware continues to hit healthcare, critical services. There is also a related blog.
In April of 2020, security researchers observed multiple ransomware campaigns using the same set of techniques.
The following query detects suspicious use of Alternate Data Streams (ADS), which may indicate an attempt to mask malicious activity. These campaigns have been known to deploy ransomware in-memory and exploit ADS.
The See also section below lists more queries related to techniques shared by these campaigns.
References:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/28/ransomware-groups-continue-to-target-healthcare-critical-services-heres-how-to-reduce-risk/
https://docs.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/streams
In April of 2020, security researchers observed multiple ransomware campaigns using the same set of techniques.
The following query detects suspicious use of Alternate Data Streams (ADS), which may indicate an attempt to mask malicious activity. These campaigns have been known to deploy ransomware in-memory and exploit ADS.
The See also section below lists more queries related to techniques shared by these campaigns.
References:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/28/ransomware-groups-continue-to-target-healthcare-critical-services-heres-how-to-reduce-risk/
https://docs.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/streams
Private Key Files.
This query identifies file operation with files having.
One of the extensions commonly used to save a private.
Key. The risk is that if an attacker were to obtain.
The file, they could brute force any password on it.
And potentially obtain a powerful certificate. To do.
This, they would only need to obtain read access to.
The file.
The risk associated with these files is heavily.
Determined by the value of the certificate. For example,.
Loss of a self-signed certificate created by Adobe Acrobat.
Is significantly less impactful than loss of a website.
SSL certificate.
Recommendation: Know where these files are, and if possible.
Back them up and remove them. You might also consider.
Creating an informational alert.
This query identifies file operation with files having.
One of the extensions commonly used to save a private.
Key. The risk is that if an attacker were to obtain.
The file, they could brute force any password on it.
And potentially obtain a powerful certificate. To do.
This, they would only need to obtain read access to.
The file.
The risk associated with these files is heavily.
Determined by the value of the certificate. For example,.
Loss of a self-signed certificate created by Adobe Acrobat.
Is significantly less impactful than loss of a website.
SSL certificate.
Recommendation: Know where these files are, and if possible.
Back them up and remove them. You might also consider.
Creating an informational alert.
'Any Alerts that fired related to a given account during the range of +6h and -3d'
'This hunting query looks for hosts exporting a mailbox from an on-prem Exchange server, followed by
that same host removing the export within a short time window. This pattern has been observed by attackers
when exfiltrating emails from a target environment. A Mailbox export is unlikely to be a common command run so look for
activity from unexpected hosts and accounts.
Reference: https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/12/14/dark-halo-leverages-solarwinds-compromise-to-breach-organizations/'
that same host removing the export within a short time window. This pattern has been observed by attackers
when exfiltrating emails from a target environment. A Mailbox export is unlikely to be a common command run so look for
activity from unexpected hosts and accounts.
Reference: https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/12/14/dark-halo-leverages-solarwinds-compromise-to-breach-organizations/'
'Access attempts to Azure Portal from an unauthorized user. Either invalid password or the user account does not exist.'
Original Sigma Rule: https://github.com/Neo23x0/sigma/blob/master/rules/apt/apt_bear_activity_gtr19.yml.
Questions via Twitter: @janvonkirchheim.
Questions via Twitter: @janvonkirchheim.
This query visualises total emails with Malware detections summarizing the data by ThreatNames of the malware detected.
Device Network Events Involving Low Count FQDNs.
This query reduces network events to only those with the RemoteURL column populated,.
Then parses the DNS name from the URL (if needed) and finds the least prevalent.
FQDNs. The result is then joined with DeviceNetworkEvents to highlight anomalous.
Network communication.
This query reduces network events to only those with the RemoteURL column populated,.
Then parses the DNS name from the URL (if needed) and finds the least prevalent.
FQDNs. The result is then joined with DeviceNetworkEvents to highlight anomalous.
Network communication.
This query was originally published in the threat analytics report, "Exchange Server zero-days exploited in the wild".
In early March 2021, Microsoft released patches for four different zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Server. The vulnerabilities were being used in a coordinated attack. For more information on the vulnerabilities, visit the following links:
1. CVE-2021-26855
2. CVE-2021-26857
3. CVE-2021-26858
4. CVE-2021-27065
The following query detects 7-zip activity associated with this threat. 7-ZIP is a legitimate tool used for file archiving; however, unusual 7-ZIP activity combined with other evidence might indicate that an attacker is compressing data for exfiltration.
More queries related to this threat can be found under the See also section of this page.
Reference - https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/03/02/multiple-security-updates-released-for-exchange-server/
In early March 2021, Microsoft released patches for four different zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Server. The vulnerabilities were being used in a coordinated attack. For more information on the vulnerabilities, visit the following links:
1. CVE-2021-26855
2. CVE-2021-26857
3. CVE-2021-26858
4. CVE-2021-27065
The following query detects 7-zip activity associated with this threat. 7-ZIP is a legitimate tool used for file archiving; however, unusual 7-ZIP activity combined with other evidence might indicate that an attacker is compressing data for exfiltration.
More queries related to this threat can be found under the See also section of this page.
Reference - https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/03/02/multiple-security-updates-released-for-exchange-server/
'Any Alerts that fired on a given host during the range of +6h and -3d'
Detects a suspicious winrar execution in a folder which is not the default installation folder
Detects the use of rar.exe, on the command line, to create an archive with password protection or with a specific compression level. This is pretty indicative of malicious actions.
Detect usage of the "sqlite" binary to query databases in Chromium-based browsers for potential data stealing.
Detects the execution of clip.exe in order to copy data to the clipboard. Adversaries may collect data stored in the clipboard from users copying information within or between applications.
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