Sigma Rules
794 rules found for "Microsoft"
Users Authenticating To Other Azure AD Tenants
Detect when users in your Azure AD tenant are authenticating to other Azure AD Tenants.
User Access Blocked by Azure Conditional Access
Detect access has been blocked by Conditional Access policies. The access policy does not allow token issuance which might be sights≈ of unauthorizeed login to valid accounts.
Azure Login Bypassing Conditional Access Policies
Detects a successful login to the Microsoft Intune Company Portal which could allow bypassing Conditional Access Policies and InTune device trust using a tool like TokenSmith.
Disabling Multi Factor Authentication
Detects disabling of Multi Factor Authentication.
New Federated Domain Added
Detects the addition of a new Federated Domain.
New Federated Domain Added - Exchange
Detects the addition of a new Federated Domain.
Activity from Suspicious IP Addresses
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported users were active from an IP address identified as risky by Microsoft Threat Intelligence. These IP addresses are involved in malicious activities, such as Botnet C&C, and may indicate compromised account.
Activity Performed by Terminated User
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported for users whose account were terminated in Azure AD, but still perform activities in other platforms such as AWS or Salesforce. This is especially relevant for users who use another account to manage resources, since these accounts are often not terminated when a user leaves the company.
Activity from Anonymous IP Addresses
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported when users were active from an IP address that has been identified as an anonymous proxy IP address.
Activity from Infrequent Country
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported when an activity occurs from a location that wasn't recently or never visited by any user in the organization.
Data Exfiltration to Unsanctioned Apps
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported when a user or IP address uses an app that is not sanctioned to perform an activity that resembles an attempt to exfiltrate information from your organization.
Microsoft 365 - Impossible Travel Activity
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported a risky sign-in attempt due to a login associated with an impossible travel.
Logon from a Risky IP Address
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported when a user signs into your sanctioned apps from a risky IP address.
Microsoft 365 - Potential Ransomware Activity
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported when a user uploads files to the cloud that might be infected with ransomware.
PST Export Alert Using eDiscovery Alert
Alert on when a user has performed an eDiscovery search or exported a PST file from the search. This PST file usually has sensitive information including email body content
PST Export Alert Using New-ComplianceSearchAction
Alert when a user has performed an export to a search using 'New-ComplianceSearchAction' with the '-Export' flag. This detection will detect PST export even if the 'eDiscovery search or exported' alert is disabled in the O365.This rule will apply to ExchangePowerShell usage and from the cloud.
Suspicious Inbox Forwarding
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported suspicious email forwarding rules, for example, if a user created an inbox rule that forwards a copy of all emails to an external address.
Suspicious OAuth App File Download Activities
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported when an app downloads multiple files from Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft OneDrive in a manner that is unusual for the user.
Microsoft 365 - Unusual Volume of File Deletion
Detects when a Microsoft Cloud App Security reported a user has deleted a unusual a large volume of files.
Microsoft 365 - User Restricted from Sending Email
Detects when a Security Compliance Center reported a user who exceeded sending limits of the service policies and because of this has been restricted from sending email.
Persistence Via Cron Files
Detects creation of cron file or files in Cron directories which could indicates potential persistence.
OMIGOD SCX RunAsProvider ExecuteScript
Rule to detect the use of the SCX RunAsProvider ExecuteScript to execute any UNIX/Linux script using the /bin/sh shell. Script being executed gets created as a temp file in /tmp folder with a scx* prefix. Then it is invoked from the following directory /etc/opt/microsoft/scx/conf/tmpdir/. The file in that directory has the same prefix scx*. SCXcore, started as the Microsoft Operations Manager UNIX/Linux Agent, is now used in a host of products including Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
OMIGOD SCX RunAsProvider ExecuteShellCommand
Rule to detect the use of the SCX RunAsProvider Invoke_ExecuteShellCommand to execute any UNIX/Linux command using the /bin/sh shell. SCXcore, started as the Microsoft Operations Manager UNIX/Linux Agent, is now used in a host of products including Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
Potential Suspicious Change To Sensitive/Critical Files
Detects changes of sensitive and critical files. Monitors files that you don't expect to change without planning on Linux system.
Suspicious Microsoft Office Child Process - MacOS
Detects suspicious child processes spawning from microsoft office suite applications such as word or excel. This could indicates malicious macro execution
Potential WizardUpdate Malware Infection
Detects the execution traces of the WizardUpdate malware. WizardUpdate is a macOS trojan that attempts to infiltrate macOS machines to steal data and it is associated with other types of malicious payloads, increasing the chances of multiple infections on a device.
Potential PetitPotam Attack Via EFS RPC Calls
Detects usage of the windows RPC library Encrypting File System Remote Protocol (MS-EFSRPC). Variations of this RPC are used within the attack refereed to as PetitPotam. The usage of this RPC function should be rare if ever used at all. Thus usage of this function is uncommon enough that any usage of this RPC function should warrant further investigation to determine if it is legitimate. View surrounding logs (within a few minutes before and after) from the Source IP to. Logs from from the Source IP would include dce_rpc, smb_mapping, smb_files, rdp, ntlm, kerberos, etc..'
Bitsadmin to Uncommon IP Server Address
Detects Bitsadmin connections to IP addresses instead of FQDN names
Bitsadmin to Uncommon TLD
Detects Bitsadmin connections to domains with uncommon TLDs
Windows PowerShell User Agent
Detects Windows PowerShell Web Access
LSASS Process Crashed - Application
Detects Windows error reporting events where the process that crashed is LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service). This could be the cause of a provoked crash by techniques such as Lsass-Shtinkering to dump credentials.
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Crash
This rule detects a suspicious crash of the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine
Ntdsutil Abuse
Detects potential abuse of ntdsutil to dump ntds.dit database
Dump Ntds.dit To Suspicious Location
Detects potential abuse of ntdsutil to dump ntds.dit database to a suspicious location
Audit CVE Event
Detects events generated by user-mode applications when they call the CveEventWrite API when a known vulnerability is trying to be exploited. MS started using this log in Jan. 2020 with CVE-2020-0601 (a Windows CryptoAPI vulnerability. Unfortunately, that is about the only instance of CVEs being written to this log.
Backup Catalog Deleted
Detects backup catalog deletions
Restricted Software Access By SRP
Detects restricted access to applications by the Software Restriction Policies (SRP) policy
Application Uninstalled
An application has been removed. Check if it is critical.
MSSQL Destructive Query
Detects the invocation of MS SQL transactions that are destructive towards table or database data, such as "DROP TABLE" or "DROP DATABASE".
MSSQL Disable Audit Settings
Detects when an attacker calls the "ALTER SERVER AUDIT" or "DROP SERVER AUDIT" transaction in order to delete or disable audit logs on the server
MSSQL SPProcoption Set
Detects when the a stored procedure is set or cleared for automatic execution in MSSQL. A stored procedure that is set to automatic execution runs every time an instance of SQL Server is started
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Crash - WER
This rule detects a suspicious crash of the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine
AppLocker Prevented Application or Script from Running
Detects when AppLocker prevents the execution of an Application, DLL, Script, MSI, or Packaged-App from running.
Sysinternals Tools AppX Versions Execution
Detects execution of Sysinternals tools via an AppX package. Attackers could install the Sysinternals Suite to get access to tools such as psexec and procdump to avoid detection based on System paths.
Deployment AppX Package Was Blocked By AppLocker
Detects an appx package deployment that was blocked by AppLocker policy.
Remote AppX Package Downloaded from File Sharing or CDN Domain
Detects an appx package that was added to the pipeline of the "to be processed" packages which was downloaded from a file sharing or CDN domain.
AppX Package Deployment Failed Due to Signing Requirements
Detects an appx package deployment / installation with the error code "0x80073cff" which indicates that the package didn't meet the signing requirements.
AppX Located in Known Staging Directory Added to Deployment Pipeline
Detects an appx package that was added to the pipeline of the "to be processed" packages that is located in a known folder often used as a staging directory.