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Microsoft 365 Exchange Transport Rule Creation
editMicrosoft 365 Exchange Transport Rule Creation
editIdentifies a transport rule creation in Microsoft 365. As a best practice, Exchange Online mail transport rules should not be set to forward email to domains outside of your organization. An adversary may create transport rules to exfiltrate data.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-o365*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: now-30m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- Microsoft 365
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Configuration Audit
Version: 8
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guide
editRule query
editevent.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:Exchange and event.category:web and event.action:"New-TransportRule" and event.outcome:success
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Exfiltration
- ID: TA0010
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0010/
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Technique:
- Name: Transfer Data to Cloud Account
- ID: T1537
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1537/