Microsoft Sentinel medium experimental kql

TI Map Domain entity to Syslog

Identifies a match in Syslog table from any Domain IOC from TI

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Detection Logic

let dt_lookBack = 1h;  // Define the time range to look back for syslog data (1 hour)
let ioc_lookBack = 14d;  // Define the time range to look back for threat intelligence indicators (14 days)
// Create a list of top-level domains (TLDs) from the threat feed for later validation
let list_tlds = ThreatIntelIndicators
| where TimeGenerated > ago(ioc_lookBack)
| summarize LatestIndicatorTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by Id
| where IsActive and (ValidUntil > now() or isempty(ValidUntil))
| extend IndicatorType = replace(@"\[
| \]
| \""", "", tostring(split(ObservableKey, ":", 0)))
| where IndicatorType == "domain-name"
| extend DomainName = tolower(ObservableValue)
| extend parts = split(DomainName, '.')
| extend tld = parts[(array_length(parts)-1)]
| summarize count() by tostring(tld)
| summarize make_list(tld);
// Fetch the latest active domain indicators from the threat intelligence data within the specified time range
let Domain_Indicators = ThreatIntelIndicators
| extend IndicatorType = replace(@"\[
| \]
| \""", "", tostring(split(ObservableKey, ":", 0)))
| where IndicatorType == "domain-name"
| extend DomainName = tolower(ObservableValue)
| extend TrafficLightProtocolLevel = tostring(parse_json(AdditionalFields).TLPLevel)
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(ioc_lookBack)
| summarize LatestIndicatorTime = arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by Id, ObservableValue
| where IsActive and (ValidUntil > now() or isempty(ValidUntil))
| extend IndicatorId = tostring(split(Id, "--")[2])
| extend Url = iff(ObservableKey == "url:value", ObservableValue, "");
// Join the threat intelligence indicators with syslog data on matching domain entities
Domain_Indicators
| project-reorder *, IsActive, Tags, TrafficLightProtocolLevel, DomainName, Type
| join kind=innerunique (
   Syslog
| where TimeGenerated > ago(dt_lookBack)
   // Extract domain patterns from syslog messages
| extend domain = extract("(([a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*\\.)+[a-z]{2,})",1, tolower(SyslogMessage))
| where isnotempty(domain)
| extend parts = split(domain, '.')
   // Split out the top-level domain (TLD)
| extend tld = parts[(array_length(parts)-1)]
   // Validate parsed domain by checking if the TLD is in the list of TLDs in our threat feed
| where tld in~ (list_tlds)
| extend Syslog_TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated
 ) on $left.DomainName==$right.domain
| where Syslog_TimeGenerated < ValidUntil
 // Retrieve the latest syslog timestamp for each indicator and domain combination
| summarize Syslog_TimeGenerated = arg_max(Syslog_TimeGenerated, *) by IndicatorId, domain
 // Select the desired columns for the final result set
| extend ActivityGroupNames = extract(@"ActivityGroup:(\S+)", 1, tostring(parse_json(Data).labels))
| extend Description = tostring(parse_json(Data).description)
| project Syslog_TimeGenerated, Description, ActivityGroupNames, Id, ValidUntil, Confidence, SyslogMessage, Computer, ProcessName, domain, HostIP, Type, DomainName, Url
 // Extract the hostname from the Computer field
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, '.', 0)[0])
 // Extract the DNS domain from the Computer field
| extend DnsDomain = tostring(strcat_array(array_slice(split(Computer, '.'), 1, -1), '.'))
 // Assign the Syslog_TimeGenerated value to the timestamp field
| extend timestamp = Syslog_TimeGenerated

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