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CYFIRMA - Brand Intelligence - Domain Impersonation High Rule

This is a third-party alert feed, not a detection over modeled telemetry. The vendor product raised the finding; this rule forwards it into the SIEM. It is searchable for reference but is excluded from the detection-rule browse and the ATT&CK coverage matrix.

Status: available
Severity: high
Time window: 5m
Source: github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel

"This analytics rule detects high-risk domain impersonation activity, where newly registered or existing domains closely resemble the legitimate brand name or organizational assets. These suspicious domains may use typosquatting, homoglyphs, or brand keywords to mislead users, steal credentials, or host phishing/malicious content. The domains are identified through CYFIRMA's external threat intelligence feeds and flagged due to potential misuse in impersonation, fraud, or social engineering attacks targeting employees, customers, or partners. Early detection of these domains enables proactive mitigation measures such as domain takedown, DNS blocking, and awareness campaigns."

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Resource Development	`T1583.001` Acquire Infrastructure: Domains, `T1586.002` Compromise Accounts: Email Accounts
Initial Access	`T1566.001` Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment, `T1566.002` Phishing: Spearphishing Link
Command & Control	`T1071.001` Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols, `T1071.003` Application Layer Protocol: Mail Protocols

Rule body kusto

id: 10bdf525-5b89-4a25-933a-e63e73b915f1
name: CYFIRMA - Brand Intelligence - Domain Impersonation High Rule
description: |
  "This analytics rule detects high-risk domain impersonation activity, where newly registered or existing domains closely resemble the legitimate brand name or organizational assets. 
  These suspicious domains may use typosquatting, homoglyphs, or brand keywords to mislead users, steal credentials, or host phishing/malicious content. 
  The domains are identified through CYFIRMA's external threat intelligence feeds and flagged due to potential misuse in impersonation, fraud, or social engineering attacks targeting employees, customers, or partners. 
  Early detection of these domains enables proactive mitigation measures such as domain takedown, DNS blocking, and awareness campaigns."
version: 1.0.1
kind: Scheduled
severity: High
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: CyfirmaBrandIntelligenceAlertsDC
    dataTypes:
      - CyfirmaBIDomainITAssetAlerts_CL
queryFrequency: 5m
queryPeriod: 5m
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
status: Available
tactics:
  - ResourceDevelopment
  - InitialAccess
  - CommandAndControl
relevantTechniques:
  - T1583.001
  - T1586.002
  - T1566.002
  - T1566.001
  - T1071.003
  - T1071.001
query: |
  // High severity-  Brand Intelligence - Domain Impersonation
  let timeFrame = 5m;
  CyfirmaBIDomainITAssetAlerts_CL
  | where severity == 'Critical' and TimeGenerated between (ago(timeFrame) .. now())
  | extend
      Description=description,
      FirstSeen=first_seen,
      LastSeen=last_seen,
      RiskScore=risk_score,
      AlertUID=alert_uid,
      UID=uid,
      Domain=domain,
      DRDomain=dr_domain,
      DRSubDomain=dr_sub_domain,
      DomainSquat=signature,
      HostProvider=host_provider,
      RegisteredDate=registered_date,
      CreatedDate=created_date,
      ThreatActor=suspected_threat_actor,
      ProviderName='CYFIRMA',
      ProductName='DeCYFIR/DeTCT'
  | project
      TimeGenerated,
      Description,
      RiskScore,
      FirstSeen,
      LastSeen,
      AlertUID,
      UID,
      Domain,
      DRDomain,
      DRSubDomain,
      DomainSquat,
      HostProvider,
      RegisteredDate,
      CreatedDate,
      ThreatActor,
      ProductName,
      ProviderName
entityMappings:
  - entityType: DNS
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: DomainName
        columnName: Domain
  - entityType: DNS
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: DomainName
        columnName: DomainSquat
customDetails:
  TimeGenerated: TimeGenerated
  RiskScore: RiskScore
  DomainSquat: DomainSquat
  Domain: Domain
  Description: Description
  DRDomain: DRDomain
  DRSubDomain: DRSubDomain
  AlertUID: AlertUID
  UID: UID
  ThreatActor: ThreatActor
  FirstSeen: FirstSeen
  LastSeen: LastSeen
  CreatedDate: CreatedDate
  RegisteredDate: RegisteredDate
  HostProvider: HostProvider
alertDetailsOverride:
  alertDisplayNameFormat: "CYFIRMA - High Severity Alert - Malicious Domain Impersonation of Corporate Brand - Domain Squat: {{DomainSquat}} "
  alertDescriptionFormat: "{{Description}} "
  alertDynamicProperties:
    - alertProperty: ProductName
      value: ProductName
    - alertProperty: ProviderName
      value: ProviderName
incidentConfiguration:
  createIncident: true
  groupingConfiguration:
    enabled: false
    reopenClosedIncident: false
    lookbackDuration: PT5H
    matchingMethod: AllEntities
eventGroupingSettings:
  aggregationKind: AlertPerResult

Stages and Predicates

Parameters

let timeFrame = 5m;

Stage 1: `source`

CyfirmaBIDomainITAssetAlerts_CL

Stage 2: `where`

| where severity == 'Critical' and TimeGenerated between (ago(timeFrame) .. now())

Stage 3: `extend`

| extend
    Description=description,
    FirstSeen=first_seen,
    LastSeen=last_seen,
    RiskScore=risk_score,
    AlertUID=alert_uid,
    UID=uid,
    Domain=domain,
    DRDomain=dr_domain,
    DRSubDomain=dr_sub_domain,
    DomainSquat=signature,
    HostProvider=host_provider,
    RegisteredDate=registered_date,
    CreatedDate=created_date,
    ThreatActor=suspected_threat_actor,
    ProviderName='CYFIRMA',
    ProductName='DeCYFIR/DeTCT'

Stage 4: `project`

| project
    TimeGenerated,
    Description,
    RiskScore,
    FirstSeen,
    LastSeen,
    AlertUID,
    UID,
    Domain,
    DRDomain,
    DRSubDomain,
    DomainSquat,
    HostProvider,
    RegisteredDate,
    CreatedDate,
    ThreatActor,
    ProductName,
    ProviderName

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
`severity`	eq	`Critical` transforms: `cased`

Output fields

Fields the rule emits when it matches. Chronicle authors list these in the outcome block; they appear on the detection and $risk_score drives alerting. Sentinel / Defender XDR rules build them up through project / summarize / extend stages. Sentinel maps these into alert fields via entityMappings and customDetails; Defender XDR custom detections surface them as alert fields directly.

Field	Source
`AlertUID`	`project`
`CreatedDate`	`project`
`DRDomain`	`project`
`DRSubDomain`	`project`
`Description`	`project`
`Domain`	`project`
`DomainSquat`	`project`
`FirstSeen`	`project`
`HostProvider`	`project`
`LastSeen`	`project`
`ProductName`	`project`
`ProviderName`	`project`
`RegisteredDate`	`project`
`RiskScore`	`project`
`ThreatActor`	`project`
`TimeGenerated`	`project`
`UID`	`project`

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`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)

CYFIRMA - Brand Intelligence - Domain Impersonation High Rule

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Rule body kusto

Stages and Predicates

Parameters

Stage 1: `source`

Stage 2: `where`

Stage 3: `extend`

Stage 4: `project`

Indicators

Output fields

Keyboard shortcuts

Search operators

CYFIRMA - Brand Intelligence - Domain Impersonation High Rule

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Rule body kusto

Stages and Predicates

Parameters

Stage 1: source

Stage 2: where

Stage 3: extend

Stage 4: project

Indicators

Output fields

Stage 1: `source`

Stage 2: `where`

Stage 3: `extend`

Stage 4: `project`