Microsoft Entra ID Concurrent Sign-Ins with Suspicious Properties

Last updated a month ago on 2025-07-16
Created 4 months ago on 2025-04-28

About

Identifies concurrent azure signin events for the same user and from multiple sources, and where one of the authentication event has some suspicious properties often associated to DeviceCode and OAuth phishing. Adversaries may steal Refresh Tokens (RTs) via phishing to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and gain unauthorized access to Azure resources.
Tags
Domain: CloudDomain: SaaSData Source: AzureData Source: Entra IDData Source: Entra ID Sign-inUse Case: Identity and Access AuditUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Credential AccessLanguage: esql
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Credential Access (TA0006)(opens in a new tab or window)

False Positive Examples
Users authenticating from multiple devices and using the deviceCode protocol or the Visual Studio Code client.
License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Related Integrations

azure(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
from logs-azure.signinlogs* metadata _id, _version, _index

// Scheduled to run every hour, reviewing events from past hour
| where
  @timestamp > now() - 1 hours
  and event.dataset == "azure.signinlogs"
  and source.ip is not null
  and azure.signinlogs.identity is not null
  and to_lower(event.outcome) == "success"

// keep relevant raw fields
| keep
  @timestamp,
  azure.signinlogs.identity,
  source.ip,
  azure.signinlogs.properties.authentication_requirement,
  azure.signinlogs.properties.app_id,
  azure.signinlogs.properties.resource_display_name,
  azure.signinlogs.properties.authentication_protocol,
  azure.signinlogs.properties.app_display_name

// case classifications for identity usage
| eval
      Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_authentication_device_code_case = case(
      azure.signinlogs.properties.authentication_protocol == "deviceCode"
      and azure.signinlogs.properties.authentication_requirement != "multiFactorAuthentication",
      azure.signinlogs.identity,
      null),

    Esql.azure_signinlogs_auth_visual_studio_case = case(
      azure.signinlogs.properties.app_id == "aebc6443-996d-45c2-90f0-388ff96faa56"
      and azure.signinlogs.properties.resource_display_name == "Microsoft Graph",
      azure.signinlogs.identity,
      null),

    Esql.azure_signinlogs_auth_other_case = case(
      azure.signinlogs.properties.authentication_protocol != "deviceCode"
      and azure.signinlogs.properties.app_id != "aebc6443-996d-45c2-90f0-388ff96faa56",
      azure.signinlogs.identity,
      null)

// Aggregate metrics by user identity
| stats
    Esql.event_count = count(*),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_authentication_device_code_case_count_distinct = count_distinct(Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_authentication_device_code_case),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_auth_visual_studio_count_distinct = count_distinct(Esql.azure_signinlogs_auth_visual_studio_case),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_auth_other_count_distinct = count_distinct(Esql.azure_signinlogs_auth_other_case),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_source_ip_count_distinct = count_distinct(source.ip),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_source_ip_values = values(source.ip),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_client_app_values = values(azure.signinlogs.properties.app_display_name),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_resource_display_name_values = values(azure.signinlogs.properties.resource_display_name),
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_auth_requirement_values = values(azure.signinlogs.properties.authentication_requirement)
  by azure.signinlogs.identity

// Detect multiple unique IPs for one user with signs of deviceCode or VSC OAuth usage
| where
  Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_source_ip_count_distinct >= 2
  and (
    Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_authentication_device_code_case_count_distinct > 0
    or Esql.azure_signinlogs_properties_auth_visual_studio_count_distinct > 0
  )

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Microsoft Entra ID Concurrent Sign-Ins with Suspicious Properties in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).