Anomalous Geo Location Logon
Adversaries may steal the credentials of a specific user or service account using credential access techniques or capture credentials earlier in their reconnaissance process through social engineering as a means of…
Description
Adversaries may steal the credentials of a specific user or service account using credential access techniques or capture credentials earlier in their reconnaissance process through social engineering as a means of gaining initial access. APT33, for example, has used valid accounts for initial access. The query below generates an output of a successful sign-in performed by a user from a new geolocation he has never connected to before and none of his peers as well.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- azureactivedirectorybehavioranalytics
- Log source service
- behavioranalyticssigninlogs
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
- eeea7fb9-21cf-4023-91dc-3f55d7548d14
- 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