O365 Excessive Single Sign-On Logon Errors

Identifies accounts with a high number of single sign-on (SSO) logon errors. Excessive logon errors may indicate an attempt to brute force a password or SSO token.

Rule type: threshold

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-o365*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-20m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
Microsoft 365
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Identity and Access

Version: 4

Rule authors:

Elastic
Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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## Config

The Office 365 Logs Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:AzureActiveDirectory and event.category:authentication and o365.audit.LogonError:"SsoArtifactInvalidOrExpired"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Credential Access
- ID: TA0006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/
Technique:
- Name: Brute Force
- ID: T1110
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1110/

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