Top 10 External Senders (Spam)
Identifies the top 10 external sender addresses delivering inbound emails classified as spam. To exclude your own organization's domains (including subdomains), add a filter after the spam filter, e.g.: | where…
Description
Identifies the top 10 external sender addresses delivering inbound emails classified as spam. To exclude your own organization's domains (including subdomains), add a filter after the spam 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
- 6f606826-b995-4a8d-8c2c-ee08e3d1194a
- Tagged by the source as
- InitialAccess
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1