Detection rules › YARA-L
Hunt for suspicious sign-in to Entra ID Using Extrnal Call Method
Detects authentication to O365 followed by a non-interactive sign-ins that aligns to suspicious activity.
References
Telemetry coverage
| Platform | Record / event type |
|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 | UserLoggedIn |
Rules detecting the same action
These rules filter on the same operation.
- Azure Login Bypassing Conditional Access Policies (Sigma)
- M365 Identity OAuth Flow by First-Party Microsoft App from Multiple IPs (Elastic)
- M365 Identity OAuth Flow by User Sign-in to Device Registration (Elastic)
- M365 Identity OAuth Phishing via First-Party Microsoft Application (Elastic)
- M365 Identity OAuth ROPC Grant via Legacy Authentication Client (Elastic)
- M365 Potential AiTM UserLoggedIn via Office App (Tycoon2FA) (Elastic)
- O365 AD PowerShell App Login Subsequent Activity (YARA-L)
- O365 Admin Login Activity To Uncommon Microsoft Cloud Apps (YARA-L)
Rule body
// Copyright 2025 Google LLC. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
rule suspicious_entra_id_sign_in_external_call {
meta:
author = "Google Cloud Security"
description = "Detects authentication to O365 followed by a non-interactive sign-ins that aligns to suspicious activity."
rule_id = "mr_2245edf0-3a75-4bf6-901b-c47ffda1703e"
rule_name = "Hunt for suspicious sign-in to Entra ID Using Extrnal Call Method"
assumption = "Microsoft Office is the application the stolen token is associated with, however this can be modified in GraphRunner. This detection could create FPs if not focusing on the default application, however filtering on suspicious IP addresses or user agents may help make this useful as a hunting rule."
reference = "https://github.com/dafthack/GraphRunner/blob/main/GraphRunner.ps1"
type = "hunt"
platform = "azure"
data_source = "o365, azure activity"
severity = "Medium"
priority = "Medium"
events:
$init_login.metadata.event_type = "USER_LOGIN"
$init_login.metadata.product_event_type = "UserLoggedIn"
$init_login.metadata.product_name = "Office 365"
$init_login.metadata.vendor_name = "Microsoft"
$init_login.security_result.action = "ALLOW"
$init_login.network.session_id != ""
strings.to_lower($init_login.target.user.userid) = $user
$init_login.principal.ip = $ip
//Can add specific IPs of interest here or filter admin consoles out
//$init_login.principal.ip != "10.10.10.10"
$init_login.network.session_id != $sub_login.network.session_id
$init_login.target.application != $sub_login.target.application
$init_login.network.http.user_agent != $sub_login.network.http.user_agent
$init_login.metadata.event_timestamp.seconds < $sub_login.metadata.event_timestamp.seconds
$sub_login.metadata.event_type = "USER_LOGIN"
$sub_login.metadata.product_event_type = "Sign-in activity"
$sub_login.metadata.product_name = "Azure Activity"
$sub_login.metadata.vendor_name = "Microsoft"
$sub_login.security_result.action = "ALLOW"
$sub_login.security_result.category_details = "NonInteractiveUserSignInLogs"
//Microsoft Office GUID is the default application used with Get-GraphTokens function. This can be customized but is a good place to start
//$sub_login.target.application = "Microsoft Office"
//UA listing displayed here as strings separated by or statement
//Each line is commented with device or browser or combination as specified in GraphRunner
//Could also convert to regex to refine if desired or used with a list
(
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36" nocase or // Mac/Chrome | Chrome
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0" nocase or // Mac/Firefox
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/604.1 Edg/91.0.100.0" nocase or // Mac/Edge
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Safari/605.1.15" nocase or // Mac/Safari | Mac | Safari
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" nocase or // Windows/IE | IE
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36" nocase or // Windows/Chrome
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0" nocase or // Windows/Firefox | Firefox
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19042" nocase or // Windows/Edge | Windows
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.2; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/ICL53F) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30" nocase or // AndroidMobile/Android | AndroidMobile | Android
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Mobile Safari/537.36" nocase or // AndroidMobile/Chrome
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:70.0) Gecko/70.0 Firefox/70.0" nocase or // AndroidMobile/Firefox
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Pixel Build/OPM4.171019.021.D1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.109 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/42.0.0.2057" nocase or // AndroidMobile/Edge
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/91.0.4472.114 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" nocase or // iPhone/Chrome
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/1.0 Mobile/12F69 Safari/600.1.4" nocase or // iPhone/Firefox
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.1 EdgiOS/44.5.0.10 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" nocase or // iPhone/Edge
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" nocase or // iPhone/Safari | iPhone
$sub_login.network.http.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" nocase // Edge
)
strings.to_lower($sub_login.principal.user.email_addresses[0]) = $user
$sub_login.principal.ip = $ip
match:
$user, $ip over 5m
outcome:
$risk_score = 65
$event_count = count_distinct($init_login.metadata.id)
$init_user_agent = array_distinct($init_login.network.http.user_agent)
$sub_user_agent = array_distinct($sub_login.network.http.user_agent)
$security_summary = array_distinct($init_login.security_result.summary)
$init_target_application = array_distinct($init_login.target.application)
$sub_target_application = array_distinct($sub_login.target.application)
//$principal_user_userid = array_distinct($group.principal.user.userid)
$principal_user =array_distinct($user)
$principal_ip = array_distinct($init_login.principal.ip)
$session_id = array_distinct($init_login.network.session_id)
condition:
$init_login and $sub_login
}
YARA-L rule structure
Condition
Fires when at least one $init_login event in the 5m window and at least one $sub_login event in the 5m window.
Events
$init_login
metadata.product_event_type = "UserLoggedIn"security_result.action = "ALLOW"network.session_id is not null
$sub_login
metadata.product_event_type = "Sign-in activity"security_result.action = "ALLOW"security_result.category_details = "NonInteractiveUserSignInLogs"network.http.user_agentis one of:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/604.1 Edg/91.0.100.0Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Safari/605.1.15Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like GeckoMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19042Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.2; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/ICL53F) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Mobile Safari/537.36Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:70.0) Gecko/70.0 Firefox/70.0Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Pixel Build/OPM4.171019.021.D1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.109 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/42.0.0.2057Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/91.0.4472.114 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/1.0 Mobile/12F69 Safari/600.1.4Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.1 EdgiOS/44.5.0.10 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Match and correlation
Outcome
Outcome variables add context to a detection. When the rule generates an alert, $risk_score is displayed with it.
| Field | Expression |
|---|---|
risk_score | 65 |
event_count | count_distinct($init_login.metadata.id) |
init_user_agent | array_distinct($init_login.network.http.user_agent) |
sub_user_agent | array_distinct($sub_login.network.http.user_agent) |
security_summary | array_distinct($init_login.security_result.summary) |
init_target_application | array_distinct($init_login.target.application) |
sub_target_application | array_distinct($sub_login.target.application) |
principal_user | array_distinct($user) |
principal_ip | array_distinct($init_login.principal.ip) |
session_id | array_distinct($init_login.network.session_id) |