Email Forwarding Rule Created to External Address
Identifies inbox forwarding rules created to redirect or forward email to an external address outside the organization, which may indicate an attacker using cloud app permissions to establish persistent mail…
Description
Identifies inbox forwarding rules created to redirect or forward email to an external address outside the organization, which may indicate an attacker using cloud app permissions to establish persistent mail collection for long-term data exfiltration.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ESXiIaaSLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- microsoftcloudappsecurity
- Log source service
- cloudappevents
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
- e8c2d54d-908e-4e20-b930-8dfb865d0b71
- Tagged by the source as
- CollectionExfiltration
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1