Defender-EmailEvents

ActionTypeTitleSampleRule
anyEmail processedYY

any: Email processed

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Table
EmailEvents

Example Event #

{
  "AttachmentCount": 1,
  "AuthenticationDetails": {
    "SPF": "pass",
    "DKIM": "pass",
    "DMARC": "pass",
    "CompAuth": "pass"
  },
  "Cc@odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
  "DeliveryAction": "Delivered",
  "DeliveryLocation": "Inbox/folder",
  "EmailClusterId": 3519904447,
  "EmailClusterId@odata.type": "#Int64",
  "EmailDirection": "Inbound",
  "EmailLanguage": "en",
  "EmailSize": 560111,
  "EmailSize@odata.type": "#Int64",
  "InternetMessageId": "<9e0b262d-ba0f-41dd-a2f9-4b6818411af8@az.eastus2.microsoft.com>",
  "IsFirstContact": 0,
  "IsFirstContact@odata.type": "#SByte",
  "LatestDeliveryAction": "Delivered",
  "LatestDeliveryLocation": "Inbox/folder",
  "NetworkMessageId": "beaf631f-c39b-40d9-e71c-08deeb887f5b",
  "RecipientDomain": "example.onmicrosoft.com",
  "RecipientEmailAddress": "adminuser@example.onmicrosoft.com",
  "RecipientObjectId": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "ReportId": "beaf631f-c39b-40d9-e71c-08deeb887f5b-1200339958981992029-1",
  "SenderDisplayName": "Microsoft",
  "SenderFromAddress": "microsoft-noreply@microsoft.com",
  "SenderFromDomain": "microsoft.com",
  "SenderIPv6": "2001:db8::10",
  "SenderMailFromAddress": "microsoft-noreply@microsoft.com",
  "SenderMailFromDomain": "microsoft.com",
  "Subject": "Your Microsoft invoice G173439708 is ready",
  "Timestamp": "2026-07-27T02:41:24Z",
  "To": [
    "adminuser@example.onmicrosoft.com"
  ],
  "To@odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
  "UrlCount": 18
}

Detection Patterns #

Common Indicators #

Field/value combinations most frequently checked by detection rules targeting this event, derived from cross-vendor predicate analysis.

FieldKindValueRulesVendors
Active (kusto rule field)eqtrue4 ruleskusto
RecipientEmailAddress (kusto rule field)is_not_null4 ruleskusto
SenderFromAddress (kusto rule field)is_not_null4 ruleskusto
DomainName (kusto rule field)is_not_null3 ruleskusto
Url (kusto rule field)eqEmailUrls2 ruleskusto
Url (kusto rule field)is_not_null3 ruleskusto
ValidUntil (kusto rule field)is_null3 ruleskusto
EmailEvents_TimeGenerated (kusto rule field)cross_field_compareExpirationDateTime2 ruleskusto
EmailEvents_TimeGenerated (kusto rule field)cross_field_compareValidUntil2 ruleskusto
EmailUrlInfo_TimeGenerated (kusto rule field)cross_field_compareExpirationDateTime2 ruleskusto
IndicatorType (kusto rule field)equrl2 ruleskusto
TI_EmailAddress (kusto rule field)eqRecipientAddresses2 ruleskusto
TI_EmailAddress (kusto rule field)eqSenderAddresses2 ruleskusto
UrlDomain (kusto rule field)is_not_null2 ruleskusto
DestinationHostname (kusto rule field)is_not_null1 rulekusto

Detection Rules #

Full rule details for this event, including ATT&CK technique mappings and native queries →

Kusto #

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