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Arnold Chan

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Detects Direct Send bypass (null envelope + internal-domain spoof) using a file/document-sharing lure aimed at leadership. Tightened: added inbound-direction and auth-failure requirements (was previously missing any authentication check, so legitimate SharePoint/OneDrive-style sharing notifications from real internal senders could have matched), delivered-only filter, and case-insensitive recipient/job-title join.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
2 months ago
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Detects Direct Send spearphishing impersonating internal roles (IT/Finance/Procurement) with business-themed lures targeting leadership/finance titles. Rewritten: removed a non-functional sender/recipient substring check and a broken EmailPostDeliveryEvents join that made the rule rarely fire; anchored detection to the actual Direct Send signature (null envelope + domain match) and a direct IdentityInfo join; standardized auth-failure parsing to match the other rules in this set.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
2 months ago
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Detects SCL-9 (high-confidence phishing/spam) messages that still reach an inbox, indicating an allow-list or transport-rule override, and enriches with any recent tenant mail-flow admin changes. Rewritten: removed a no-op self-join on EmailEvents and a broken exact-match join against CloudAppEvents' raw audit blob (was comparing a sender address against a whole JSON record and would never match); now excludes messages later auto-remediated (e.g. ZAP-quarantined) via the native LatestDeliveryLocation field, and correlates admin rule/allow-list changes via substring match over a cross join.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detection & Hunting Community
2 months ago
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Detects SCL-9 (high-confidence phishing/spam) messages that still reach an inbox, indicating an allow-list or transport-rule override, and enriches with any recent tenant mail-flow admin changes. Rewritten: removed a no-op self-join on EmailEvents and a broken exact-match join against CloudAppEvents' raw audit blob (was comparing a sender address against a whole JSON record and would never match); now excludes messages later auto-remediated (e.g. ZAP-quarantined) via the native LatestDeliveryLocation field, and correlates admin rule/allow-list changes via substring match over a cross join.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detections.ai Community
2 months ago
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Audits Direct Send traffic against an approved-IP watchlist, flagging unauthenticated inbound mail spoofing an internal domain from an unrecognized source IP. Fixed: RecipientDomain/SenderFromDomain were referenced but never defined (would have errored at runtime); replaced with derived SenderDomain/RecipientDomain consistent with the sibling rules. Removed a noisy display-name-contains-domain OR-branch. Replaced an always-true-in-practice auth check (required every one of SPF/DKIM/DMARC to show literal "Pass", which fails for many legitimate senders that pass via alignment on only one protocol) with the same CompAuth/all-three-fail logic used elsewhere in this set.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
2 months ago
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Audits Direct Send traffic against an approved-IP watchlist, flagging unauthenticated inbound mail spoofing an internal domain from an unrecognized source IP. Fixed: RecipientDomain/SenderFromDomain were referenced but never defined (would have errored at runtime); replaced with derived SenderDomain/RecipientDomain consistent with the sibling rules. Removed a noisy display-name-contains-domain OR-branch. Replaced an always-true-in-practice auth check (required every one of SPF/DKIM/DMARC to show literal "Pass", which fails for many legitimate senders that pass via alignment on only one protocol) with the same CompAuth/all-three-fail logic used elsewhere in this set.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detection & Hunting Community
2 months ago
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Audits Direct Send traffic against an approved-IP watchlist, flagging unauthenticated inbound mail spoofing an internal domain from an unrecognized source IP. Fixed: RecipientDomain/SenderFromDomain were referenced but never defined (would have errored at runtime); replaced with derived SenderDomain/RecipientDomain consistent with the sibling rules. Removed a noisy display-name-contains-domain OR-branch. Replaced an always-true-in-practice auth check (required every one of SPF/DKIM/DMARC to show literal "Pass", which fails for many legitimate senders that pass via alignment on only one protocol) with the same CompAuth/all-three-fail logic used elsewhere in this set.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detections.ai Community
2 months ago
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Detects the RejectDirectSend bypass (null SMTP envelope sender + internal-domain spoof). Tightened to require Microsoft's composite auth verdict OR all of SPF/DKIM/DMARC failing (vs. any one), excludes known-approved Direct Send relay IPs, and excludes likely-legitimate bulk/newsletter traffic via BulkComplaintLevel.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detections.ai Community
2 months ago
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This rule detects potential bulk data exfiltration by monitoring for high volumes of file access events (FileAccessed, FileRead, FileModified) originating from the 'doc_helper.aspx' file-management web shell. It summarizes activity by device and user account, flagging instances where over 100 unique files are touched within a short timeframe, which is indicative of automated collection and exfiltration activities.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
2 months ago
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This rule detects potential bulk data exfiltration by monitoring for high volumes of file access events (FileAccessed, FileRead, FileModified) originating from the 'doc_helper.aspx' file-management web shell. It summarizes activity by device and user account, flagging instances where over 100 unique files are touched within a short timeframe, which is indicative of automated collection and exfiltration activities.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detections.ai Community
2 months ago
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