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Monitoring specific list of users, belonging to an AD group
Hello everyone! I have list of users that I would like to use for additional monitoring. We could say these are "high risk" users. These users belong to specific AD groups (more than one). We are...
I had a somewhat similar problem where i wanted to create a query for alerting on brute-force attempts against users in specific "high risk groups". A user then came up with this solution:
https://learnsentinel.blog/2021/07/04/enrich-hunting-with-data-from-ms-graph-and-azure-ad/
This way you can have a updated table of the high risk users from our AD, then you can join other tables to cross reference activity regarding changes to group membership.
Thank you so much, I was able to push the high risk users to sentinel logs with a playbook following your method. However... excuse my ignorance but the last query you are running..
let Alert= SigninLogs | where UserPrincipalName contains "username" | where ResultType == "50158" | take 1; let HighRiskUser= HighRiskUsers_CL | where TimeGenerated > ago(24h) | extend UserPrincipalName = UserPrincipalName_s | project TimeGenerated, UserPrincipalName, AADObjectID_g ; Alert | join kind=inner HighRiskUser on UserPrincipalName | project TimeGenerated, ResultType, UserPrincipalNamethis query works only if we replace "username" with an actual username. But wasnt the whole point of this to not enter usernames manually? what am I missing here. FYI I am just a beginner at KQL and still not familiar with most operators, including join/union.
Ciyaresh Ah, well that is because the query you found in the link was made by the original creator, it is more of a test to see that it works.
I would probably do something like this;
let HighriskUsers = HighRiskUsers_CL | distinct UserPrincipalName_s; SecurityEvent | where TargetAccount in (HighriskUsers) | where EventID == "4624"Just make sure the custom log table usernames match with the SecurityEvent TargetAccount regarding upper/lower case. You can use the toupper/tolower function to make sure they match if they are not by default. I use the distinct operation to make sure i dont get duplicate values from the custom table.
stianhoydal Thank you, now I get it fully. works as you described!
