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M365 Azure Monitor Alert Email with Financial or Billing Theme

Detects Azure Monitor alert notification emails with financial or billing themed subject lines delivered to organization users. Adversaries abuse Azure Monitor alert rules to deliver callback phishing emails from…

Description

Detects Azure Monitor alert notification emails with financial or billing themed subject lines delivered to organization users. Adversaries abuse Azure Monitor alert rules to deliver callback phishing emails from Microsoft's legitimate azure-noreply@microsoft.com address. Because the emails originate from Microsoft's own infrastructure, they pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC checks, bypassing email security filters and increasing victim trust. The attacker embeds a fraudulent billing or security lure in the alert rule description, which is rendered in the notification email body. Observed subject patterns include invoice numbers, payment references, and order confirmations.

Detection logic

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Detection requirements

Platform
Identity ProviderLinuxmacOSOffice SuiteSaaSWindows

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.

Known benign triggers

  • Organizations that use Azure Monitor alert rules with financial or billing related naming conventions for legitimate infrastructure monitoring may trigger this rule. Review the email subject and recipient to determine if the alert originates from a known internal Azure subscription.

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