Top Internal Users Auto-forwarding Email Externally (Mailbox Rule and SMTP)
This query lists the top internal users automatically forwarding email to external addresses, by forwarding type, using the EmailEvents table.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- LinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques 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
- 7d5d4ac0-e3db-4ddc-9fd3-9894c7de2c5c
- Tagged by the source as
- CollectionExfiltration
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 4, 2026
- Version
- 1