Entra ID Protection - Risk Detection

Status: production
Kind: building block (feeds higher-level correlation rules; not a standalone alert)
Severity: medium
Time window: 9m
Author: Elastic
Source: github.com/elastic/detection-rules

Identifies Microsoft Entra ID Protection sign-in risk detections triggered by a range of risk events such as anonymized IP addresses, password spray attacks, impossible travel, token anomalies, and more. These detections are often early indicators of potential account compromise or malicious sign-in behavior. This is a promotion rule intended to surface all Entra ID sign-in risk events for further investigation and correlation with other identity-related activity. This is a building block rule that is used to collect all Microsoft Entra ID Protection sign-in or user risk detections. It is not intended to be used as a standalone detection.

Rule body elastic

[metadata]
bypass_bbr_timing = true
creation_date = "2025/05/18"
integration = ["azure"]
maturity = "production"
promotion = true
updated_date = "2025/12/10"

[rule]
author = ["Elastic"]
building_block_type = "default"
description = """
Identifies Microsoft Entra ID Protection sign-in risk detections triggered by a range of risk events such as anonymized
IP addresses, password spray attacks, impossible travel, token anomalies, and more. These detections are often early
indicators of potential account compromise or malicious sign-in behavior. This is a promotion rule intended to surface
all Entra ID sign-in risk events for further investigation and correlation with other identity-related activity. This is
a building block rule that is used to collect all Microsoft Entra ID Protection sign-in or user risk detections. It is
not intended to be used as a standalone detection.
"""
from = "now-9m"
index = ["logs-azure.identity_protection-*"]
language = "kuery"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Entra ID Protection - Risk Detection"
references = [
    "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-protection/concept-identity-protection-risks#risk-types-and-detection",
]
risk_score = 47
rule_id = "da0d4bae-33ee-11f0-a59f-f661ea17fbcd"
setup = ""
severity = "medium"
tags = [
    "Domain: Cloud",
    "Data Source: Azure",
    "Data Source: Microsoft Entra ID",
    "Data Source: Microsoft Entra ID Protection",
    "Data Source: Microsoft Entra ID Protection Logs",
    "Use Case: Identity and Access Audit",
    "Use Case: Threat Detection",
    "Rule Type: BBR",
]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "query"

query = '''
event.dataset: "azure.identity_protection"
'''

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `query`

event.dataset: "azure.identity_protection"

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

Field	Kind	Values
`event.dataset`	eq	`azure.identity_protection`

`j` / `k`	Scroll down / up
`d` / `u`	Half-page down / up
`gg` / `G`	Top / bottom
`h` / `l`	History back / forward
`f`	Follow link (`Shift` = new tab)
`/`	Focus search
`?`	Toggle this help
`↑` / `↓`	Navigate search results
`Enter`	Open highlighted result
`Esc`	Close results / dialog

`type:`	`events` / `rules` / `providers`
`vendor:`	`sigma` / `elastic` / `splunk` / `kusto` / `chronicle` (vendor name alone also works: `sigma:`, `kql:`, `secops:`…)
`tactic:`	TA-id, slug, or name: `credential_access`, `TA0006`
`technique:`	technique or sub-technique ID: `T1003`, `T1003.001` (alias `tech:`)
`severity:`	`critical` / `high` / `medium` / `low` / `informational` (alias `sev:`)
`risk_score`	Numeric comparison on the Elastic risk score (0 to 100): `risk_score>50`, `risk_score<=20`, `risk_score=99` (alias `risk`; Elastic rules only)
`stages:`	Rules with exactly N pipeline stages
`correlation:`	`single_event` / `sequence` / `alternatives` / `alternatives_cross_log` / `all_required` / `correlated`
`with:`	Co-occurrence event-id; stacks (`with:4624 with:4769`) to require all, while a comma list in one occurrence (`with:4624,4769`) is an either-or group. Implies multi-event
`like:`	Structural neighbors of a rule slug (equivalents + subsumption stricter / broader): `like:comsvcs_lsass_memory_dump-splunk-sysmon`
`groupby:`	Entity-grouping substring match against `group_by_keys`: `groupby:user`, `groupby:host`
`uses:`	Rules whose predicate tree touches the field (any kind, any value): `uses:CommandLine`
`excludes:`	Rules with top-level `not()` clauses on the field (FP whitelists): `excludes:ParentImage`
`field:` / `value:`	Predicate search; narrows rule cards to those with a matching leaf and drives the indicator tier. Unquoted = substring, wildcards allowed (`value:mimikatz`)
`indicator:`	Shorthand for `field:F value:V`: `indicator:Image=*\powershell.exe`
`kind:`	Filter by predicate kind. Narrows rule cards to those carrying a matching predicate leaf (`vendor:elastic kind:cidr_match`) and drives the indicator tier: `contains` / `starts_with` / `ends_with` / `regex` / `cidr` / `eq` / `in` … (operator aliases `op:`/`match:`)
`has:` / `no:`	`sample`, `field`, `notes`, `refs`, `trace`, `thirdparty`, `rule`, `pattern`, `timewindow`, `threshold`, `newterms`, `sigma`/`elastic`/`splunk`/`kusto`/`chronicle`
`-op:val`	Exclude matches; works on most operators but not `type:`/`like:`/`has:`/`no:` (use `no:<flag>` to exclude a rule flag): `tactic:execution -vendor:splunk`. Standalone `-kind:`/`-field:`/`-value:` drop every rule carrying a matching predicate leaf (`type:rules -kind:is_null`)
`field:"…"` / `value:"…"`	Quoted value = anchored exact match (also allows spaces): `value:"net user"`
`a,b`	Comma = OR inside one operator (`vendor:sigma,elastic`, `severity:high,critical`); repeating a facet merges the same way. `field:`/`value:` never split (literal commas)
`vendors:` / `stage:`	Singular and plural spellings fold to the canonical operator and value: `tactics:` = `tactic:`, `type:event` = `type:events`, `correlation:sequences` = `correlation:sequence`, `has:thresholds` = `has:threshold`
`"quoted phrase"`	Exact-match a multi-word phrase (free text)

Entra ID Protection - Risk Detection

Rule body elastic

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `query`

Indicators

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Entra ID Protection - Risk Detection

Rule body elastic

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: query

Indicators

Stage 1: `query`