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MFA Rejected by User

Status
available
Severity
medium
Time window
1h
Group by
AADTenantId, FailedIPAddress, UserId, UserPrincipalName
Source
github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel

'Identifies occurances where a user has rejected an MFA prompt. This could be an indicator that a threat actor has compromised the username and password of this user account and is using it to try and log into the account. Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-user-accounts#monitoring-for-failed-unusual-sign-ins This query has also been updated to include UEBA logs IdentityInfo and BehaviorAnalytics for contextual information around the results. Please note, MFA Failed logons from known IP ranges can be benign depending on the conditional access policies. In case of noisy behavior, consider tuning the source IP ranges or location filter after careful consideration'

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Initial AccessT1078.004 Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts

Rules detecting the same action

Other rules on this platform that filter on the same API call or operation.

Rule body kusto

id: d99cf5c3-d660-436c-895b-8a8f8448da23
name: MFA Rejected by User
description: |
  'Identifies occurances where a user has rejected an MFA prompt. This could be an indicator that a threat actor has compromised the username and password of this user account and is using it to try and log into the account.
  Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-user-accounts#monitoring-for-failed-unusual-sign-ins
  This query has also been updated to include UEBA logs IdentityInfo and BehaviorAnalytics for contextual information around the results. 
  Please note, MFA Failed logons from known IP ranges can be benign depending on the conditional access policies. In case of noisy behavior, consider tuning the source IP ranges or location filter after careful consideration'
severity: Medium
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: AzureActiveDirectory
    dataTypes:
      - SigninLogs
  - connectorId: BehaviorAnalytics
    dataTypes:
      - BehaviorAnalytics
  - connectorId: BehaviorAnalytics
    dataTypes:
      - IdentityInfo
queryFrequency: 1h
queryPeriod: 1h
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
status: Available
tactics:
  - InitialAccess
relevantTechniques:
  - T1078.004
tags:
  - AADSecOpsGuide
query: |
  let riskScoreCutoff = 3; //Adjust this score threshold based on volume of results. Activities identified as the most abnormal receive the highest scores (on a scale of 0-10)
  SigninLogs
  | where ResultType == 500121
  | extend additionalDetails_ = tostring(Status.additionalDetails)
  | extend UserPrincipalName = tolower(UserPrincipalName)
  | where additionalDetails_ =~ "MFA denied; user declined the authentication" or additionalDetails_ has "fraud"
  | summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTIme = max(TimeGenerated) by UserPrincipalName, UserId, AADTenantId, FailedIPAddress = IPAddress
  | extend Name = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])
  | join kind=leftouter (
      IdentityInfo
      | summarize LatestReportTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by AccountUPN
      | project AccountUPN, Tags, JobTitle, GroupMembership, AssignedRoles, UserType, IsAccountEnabled
      | summarize
          Tags = make_set(Tags, 1000),
          GroupMembership = make_set(GroupMembership, 1000),
          AssignedRoles = make_set(AssignedRoles, 1000),
          UserType = make_set(UserType, 1000),
          UserAccountControl = make_set(UserType, 1000)
      by AccountUPN
      | extend UserPrincipalName=tolower(AccountUPN)
  ) on UserPrincipalName
  //Below it will be joined with BehaviorAnalytics table to the Failed IP Addresses
  | join kind=leftouter (
      BehaviorAnalytics
      | where ActivityType in ("FailedLogOn", "LogOn")
      | where isnotempty(SourceIPAddress)
      | project UsersInsights, DevicesInsights, ActivityInsights, InvestigationPriority, SourceIPAddress, UserName
      | project-rename FailedIPAddress = SourceIPAddress, Name = UserName
      | summarize
        MaxInvestigationScore = max(InvestigationPriority)  // Only retrieve maximum Investigation Property score for both FailedIP and User
      by FailedIPAddress, Name)
  on FailedIPAddress, Name  // Joining on both IP and User so as to only return context associated with same user
  | extend UEBARiskScore = MaxInvestigationScore
  | project-away *1 // removing duplicate columns post outer join from output
  | where  UEBARiskScore > riskScoreCutoff
  | sort by UEBARiskScore desc 
entityMappings:
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: FullName
        columnName: UserPrincipalName
      - identifier: Name
        columnName: Name
      - identifier: UPNSuffix
        columnName: UPNSuffix
  - entityType: Account
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: AadUserId
        columnName: UserId
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: FailedIPAddress
version: 2.0.4
kind: Scheduled

Stages and Predicates

Parameters

let riskScoreCutoff = 3;

Stage 1: source

SigninLogs

Stage 2: where

| where ResultType == 500121

Stage 3: extend

| extend additionalDetails_ = tostring(Status.additionalDetails)

Stage 4: extend

| extend UserPrincipalName = tolower(UserPrincipalName)

Stage 5: where

| where additionalDetails_ =~ "MFA denied; user declined the authentication" or additionalDetails_ has "fraud"

Stage 6: summarize

| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTIme = max(TimeGenerated) by UserPrincipalName, UserId, AADTenantId, FailedIPAddress = IPAddress

Stage 7: extend

| extend Name = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName,'@',0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(UserPrincipalName,'@',1)[0])

Stage 8: join

| join kind=leftouter (
    IdentityInfo
    | summarize LatestReportTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by AccountUPN
    | project AccountUPN, Tags, JobTitle, GroupMembership, AssignedRoles, UserType, IsAccountEnabled
    | summarize
        Tags = make_set(Tags, 1000),
        GroupMembership = make_set(GroupMembership, 1000),
        AssignedRoles = make_set(AssignedRoles, 1000),
        UserType = make_set(UserType, 1000),
        UserAccountControl = make_set(UserType, 1000)
    by AccountUPN
    | extend UserPrincipalName=tolower(AccountUPN)
) on UserPrincipalName

Stage 9: join

| join kind=leftouter (
    BehaviorAnalytics
    | where ActivityType in ("FailedLogOn", "LogOn")
    | where isnotempty(SourceIPAddress)
    | project UsersInsights, DevicesInsights, ActivityInsights, InvestigationPriority, SourceIPAddress, UserName
    | project-rename FailedIPAddress = SourceIPAddress, Name = UserName
    | summarize
      MaxInvestigationScore = max(InvestigationPriority)
    by FailedIPAddress, Name)
on FailedIPAddress, Name

Stage 10: extend

| extend UEBARiskScore = MaxInvestigationScore

Stage 11: project-away

| project-away *1

Stage 12: where

| where  UEBARiskScore > riskScoreCutoff

Stage 13: sort

| sort by UEBARiskScore desc

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.

FieldKindValues
ActivityTypein
  • FailedLogOn transforms: cased
  • LogOn transforms: cased
ResultTypeeq
  • 500121 transforms: cased
SourceIPAddressis_not_null
  • (no value, null check)
UEBARiskScoregt
  • 3 transforms: cased
additionalDetails_eq
  • MFA denied; user declined the authentication
additionalDetails_match
  • fraud transforms: term

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.

FieldSource
AADTenantIdsummarize
EndTImesummarize
FailedIPAddresssummarize
StartTimesummarize
UserIdsummarize
UserPrincipalNamesummarize
Nameextend
UPNSuffixextend
UEBARiskScoreextend