Office 365

Office365 is a popular application productivity suite that enables organizations to accelerate communication and business processes. With Office365’s popularity, it has become a common attack vector for malicious actors and insider threats. As a result, Devo provides out-of-the-box detections to help organizations to understand possible attack vectors and ways to protect their office365 data.

Phish Attempt

Adversaries may send victims emails containing malicious attachments or links, typically to execute malicious code on victim systems.

This detection is triggered when a user reports an email as malware or phishing in Office 365.

Source table ➝ cloud.office365.management.securitycompliancecenter

365 Sus Mailbox Delegation

Adversaries may use the compromised account to send messages to other accounts in the network of the target organization while creating inbox rules.

Source table → cloud.office365.management.exchange

New Federated Domain

The addition of a new Federated domain may be a normal activity. However, these events need to be followed closely, as they may indicate federated credential abuse or a backdoor via federated identities.

Source table → cloud.office365.management.exchange

Excessive SSO Login Failures

Adversaries may use brute-force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.

Source table → cloud.office365.management.azureactivedirectory

Excessive Auth Failure Attempts

This detection is triggered when a user account attempts an excessive number of authentication attempts with a failed status result in a short time window.

Source table → cloud.office365.management.azureactivedirectory

Disable MFA

Adversaries may modify authentication mechanisms and processes to access user credentials, bypass authentication mechanisms or enable otherwise unwarranted access to accounts.

Source table → cloud.office365.management.azureactivedirectory

Bypass MFA via IP

This activity is not necessarily malicious. However, these events need to be followed closely. Attackers are often known to use this technique so that they can bypass the MFA system.

Source table → cloud.office365.management

Added Service Principal

This detection is triggered when new Service Principal credentials have been added in Azure.

Source table → cloud.office365.management.azureactivedirectory

Mailbox Audit Bypass

The mailbox audit is responsible for logging specified mailbox events. Attackers may attempt to bypass this mechanism to conceal actions taken.

Source table → cloud.office365.management.exchange

SecOpsO365PSTExportAlert

This detection is triggered when a user has performed an Ediscovery or exported a pst file with sensitive information.

Source table → cloud.office365.management

SecOpsO365SuspiciousAdminEmailForwarding

This detection is triggered when a user has configured several forwarding rules to the same email address.

Source table → cloud.office365.management

SecOpsActivityAnonymousIPAddressesO365

This policy profiles your environment and triggers alerts when it identifies activity from an IP address that has been identified as an anonymous proxy IP address. These proxies are used by people who want to hide their device’s IP address and may be used for malicious intent.

Source table → cloud.office365.siem_agent_alert

SecOpsActivityAnonymousIPAddressesO365

This policy profiles your environment and triggers alerts when it identifies activity from an IP address that has been identified as an anonymous proxy IP address. These proxies are used by people who want to hide their device’s IP address and may be used for malicious intent.

Source table → cloud.office365.siem_agent_alert