Detection rules › Panther

A user authenticated with SAML, but from an unknown company domain

Severity
medium
Log types
Gravitational.TeleportAudit
Tags
Teleport
Reference
https://goteleport.com/docs/management/admin/
Source
github.com/panther-labs/panther-analysis

A user authenticated with SAML, but from an unknown company domain

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1098 Account Manipulation

Rule body yaml

AnalysisType: rule
Filename: teleport_saml_login_not_company_domain.py
RuleID: Teleport.SAMLLoginWithoutCompanyDomain
DisplayName: "A user authenticated with SAML, but from an unknown company domain"
Enabled: true
LogTypes:
  - Gravitational.TeleportAudit
Tags:
  - Teleport
Severity: Medium
Description: "A user authenticated with SAML, but from an unknown company domain"
DedupPeriodMinutes: 60
Reports:
  MITRE ATT&CK:
    - TA0003:T1098
Reference: https://goteleport.com/docs/management/admin/
Runbook: >
  A user authenticated with SAML, but from an unknown company domain
SummaryAttributes:
  - event
  - code
  - user
  - method
  - mfa_device
Tests:
  - Name: A user authenticated with SAML, but from a known company domain
    ExpectedResult: false
    Log:
      {
        "attributes": { "firstName": [""], "groups": ["employees"] },
        "cluster_name": "teleport.example.com",
        "code": "T1001I",
        "ei": 0,
        "event": "user.login",
        "method": "saml",
        "success": true,
        "time": "2023-09-18 00:00:00",
        "uid": "88888888-4444-4444-4444-222222222222",
        "user": "jane.doe@example.com",
      }
  - Name: A user authenticated with SAML, but not from a company domain
    ExpectedResult: true
    Log:
      {
        "cluster_name": "teleport.example.com",
        "code": "T1001I",
        "ei": 0,
        "event": "user.login",
        "method": "saml",
        "success": true,
        "time": "2023-09-18 00:00:00",
        "uid": "88888888-4444-4444-4444-222222222222",
        "user": "wtf.how@omghax.gravitational.io",
      }

Detection logic

Condition

event eq "user.login"
success eq "True"
method eq "saml"

This rule also runs imperative logic the parser cannot express as a filter; the conditions above are the structured part it could extract.

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
eventeq
  • user.login
methodeq
  • saml
successeq
  • True

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
user
cluster_name