Microsoft Sentinel medium experimental kql

User impersonation by Identity Protection alerts

'This detection focuses on identifying user-related events involving IAM roles, groups, user access, and password changes. It examines instances where the user's IP address matches and alerts generated by Identity Protection share the same IP address. The analysis occurs within a time window of 1 hour, helping to flag potential cases of user impersonation.'

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Detection Logic

// Retrieve SecurityAlerts generated within the last day
 SecurityAlert 
 // Filter alerts for Azure Active Directory Identity Protection and High severity
| where ProductName has "Azure Active Directory Identity Protection"
| where AlertSeverity == "High"
 // Extract IP address entities from the 'Entities' field
| extend ipAddress = extract(@'\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b', 0, Entities)
 // Filter out alerts without IP address entities
| where isnotempty(ipAddress)
 // Summarize entities per unique combination of attributes
| summarize make_set(Entities)
     by
     AlertTime = TimeGenerated,
     ipAddress,
     AlertName,
     ProductName,
     AlertSeverity
 // Perform an inner join with AWS CloudTrail events
| join kind=inner (
     AWSCloudTrail
| where isempty(ErrorMessage)
| extend UserType = tostring(parse_json(RequestParameters).userType)
| where EventName in~ ("CreateRole", "DeleteRole", "CreateUser", "CreateAccessKey", "DeleteAccessKey", "CreateGroup", "AddUserToGroup", "ChangePassword", "DeleteGroup", "DeleteUser", "RemoveUserFromGroup", "CreateVirtualMFADevice", "DeleteLoginProfile")
| summarize
         make_set(RequestParameters),
         make_set(ResponseElements)
         by
         SourceIpAddress,
         UserIdentityArn,
         UserIdentityType,
         EventName,
         EventTime = TimeGenerated
     )
     on $left.ipAddress == $right.SourceIpAddress  
 // Filter results based on temporal correlation
| where AlertTime between ((EventTime - 1h) .. (EventTime + 1h))

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