Potential Password Spray Attack (Uses Authentication Normalization)
Description
'This query searches for failed attempts to log in from more than 15 various users within a 5 minute timeframe from the same source. This is a potential indication of a password spray attack To use this analytics rule, make sure you have deployed the ASIM normalization parsers'
Query · kql
let FailureThreshold = 15;
imAuthentication
| where EventType== 'Logon' and EventResult== 'Failure'
// reason: creds
| where EventResultDetails in ('No such user or password', 'Incorrect password')
| summarize UserCount=dcount(TargetUserId), Vendors=make_set(EventVendor), Products=make_set(EventVendor)
, Users = make_set(TargetUserId,100)
by SrcDvcIpAddr, SrcGeoCountry, bin(TimeGenerated, 5m)
| where UserCount > FailureThreshold