Azure AD Identity Protection risk detections

OperationDescriptionSampleRule
anyCatch-all for M365-AadRiskDetection rules matching the RecordType but no specific Operation.NY

any: Azure AD Identity Protection risk detections (catch-all)

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RecordType
AadRiskDetection

Description

Catch-all for M365-AadRiskDetection rules matching the RecordType but no specific Operation.

Detection Rules #

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

Elastic #

  • M365 Entra ID Risk Detection Signal source low: Identifies Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) risk detection signals including risky sign-ins, compromised credentials, impossible travel, and other identity-based anomalies. These events indicate potential credential compromise, account takeover attempts, or suspicious authentication patterns detected by Microsoft's identity protection. This building block rule generates security events for correlation, threat hunting, and telemetry collection to support detection of credential access and initial access attempts.T1078, T1078.004, T1110, T1110.003

References #

M365 audit records use different field names on each surface #

The same Unified Audit Log record uses different field names on each surface. A query built for one surface can silently miss on another. These pages document the Management Activity API JSON names, the same names Search-UnifiedAuditLog and the Office 365 Management Activity API return.

  • Purview CSV export flattens each record to four columns (CreationDate, UserIds, Operations, AuditData). The API field names live only inside the AuditData JSON blob. Expand it with ConvertFrom-Json. The wrapper columns are renamed too: CreationDate not CreationTime, UserIds not UserId, Operations not Operation.
  • Sentinel's OfficeActivity table renames several fields and turns two integer enum columns into strings. The table below maps them.
API JSON (event pages)OfficeActivity columnNote
IdOfficeIdRenamed.
WorkloadOfficeWorkloadRenamed.
ObjectIdOfficeObjectIdRenamed.
CreationTimeTimeGeneratedRenamed. OfficeActivity has no CreationTime column.
SiteUrlSite_UrlRenamed (SharePoint family).
RecordTypeRecordTypeSame name; the Int32 enum becomes its string enum name.
UserTypeUserTypeSame name; the Int32 enum becomes a string.
ClientIPClientIP, Client_IPAddressBoth columns present on OfficeActivity.
Scope(none)No OfficeActivity equivalent under any name. Recover it from the API JSON or the Purview AuditData blob.
Operation, UserId, ResultStatus, UserKey, AppAccessContext, OrganizationIdsame namesUnchanged. No _s / _d suffixes (a native table, not a custom log).

Mapping verified against the OfficeActivity table reference, the Management Activity API schema, and the Purview audit-record export format.