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O365 Excessive Single Sign-On Logon Errors
editO365 Excessive Single Sign-On Logon Errors
editIdentifies 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: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-20m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
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Maximum alerts per execution: 100
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- Microsoft 365
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Identity and Access
Version: 101 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.14.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0
Rule authors: Elastic, Austin Songer
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positives
editAutomated processes that attempt to authenticate using expired credentials and unbounded retries may lead to false positives.
Investigation guide
editRule query
editevent.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:AzureActiveDirectory and event.category:authentication and o365.audit.LogonError:"SsoArtifactInvalidOrExpired"
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Credential Access
- ID: TA0006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/
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Technique:
- Name: Brute Force
- ID: T1110
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1110/
Rule version history
edit- Version 101 (8.6.0 release)
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- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Version 6 (8.4.0 release)
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- Version 4 (8.1.0 release)
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- Version 3 (8.0.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:AzureActiveDirectory and event.category:web and o365.audit.LogonError:"SsoArtifactInvalidOrExpired"
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- Version 2 (7.15.0 release)
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- Formatting only