PowerShell or non-browser mailbox login activity
Detects mailbox login from Exchange PowerShell. All accounts can use it by default, but admins can change it. Whitelist benign activities.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 3 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- office365
- Log source service
- officeactivity_exchange
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
- 49a4f65a-fe18-408e-afec-042fde93d3ce
- Tagged by the source as
- CollectionExecutionPersistence
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1