Anomalous User Agent connection attempt
Identifies connection attempts (success or fail) from clients with very short or very long User Agent strings and with less than 100 connection attempts.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- azuremonitor_iis
- Log source service
- w3ciislog
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- f845881e-2500-44dc-8ed7-b372af3e1e25
- Tagged by the source as
- InitialAccessSecurity - Threat Protection
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Written by
- Published
- Sep 2, 2026
- Version
- 1