Top 10 External Senders (Phish)
Identifies the top 10 external sender addresses delivering inbound emails classified as phishing. If you want to exclude your own organization's domains (including subdomains), add a filter after the phishing filter,…
Description
Identifies the top 10 external sender addresses delivering inbound emails classified as phishing. If you want to exclude your own organization's domains (including subdomains), add a filter after the phishing filter, e.g.: | where SenderFromAddress !contains ".yourdomain.com" (Replace "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain.) Based on Defender for Office 365 workbook: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefenderforoffice365blog/part-2-build-custom-email-security-reports-and-dashboards-with-workbooks-in-micr/4411303
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- Identity ProviderLinuxmacOSOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- microsoftthreatprotection
- Log source service
- emailevents
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
- db9789ab-0636-4ea6-b779-1b72b4b64aac
- Tagged by the source as
- InitialAccess
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 4, 2026
- Version
- 2