Query Details

Delivered Emails Identified As Suspicious

Query

# Delivered emails identified as suspicious

## Description

The following query will present email details that have been identified as suspicious after delivery.

### References
- https://www.michalos.net/2023/10/03/investigating-initial-access-in-compromised-email-accounts-using-microsoft-365-defender/

### Microsoft 365 Defender
```
let CompromizedEmailAddress = ""; // Insert the email address of the compromised email address
let Timeframe = 2d; // Choose the best timeframe for your investigation
let EmailInformation = EmailEvents
    | where RecipientEmailAddress == CompromizedEmailAddress
    | where DeliveryAction != "Blocked"
    | project Timestamp, NetworkMessageId, SenderMailFromAddress, SenderFromAddress, SenderDisplayName, ThreatNames;
EmailInformation
    | join (EmailPostDeliveryEvents 
    | where ThreatTypes != ""
    | project Timestamp, NetworkMessageId, Action, ActionType, ActionTrigger, ActionResult, DeliveryLocation, ThreatTypes, DetectionMethods
) on NetworkMessageId
| sort by Timestamp desc 
```

### Versioning
| Version       | Date          | Comments                               |
| ------------- |---------------| ---------------------------------------|
| 1.0           | 03/10/2023    | Initial publish                        |

Explanation

This query retrieves details of delivered emails that have been identified as suspicious. It filters the email events based on the recipient's email address and excludes blocked emails. The query then joins the filtered email events with post-delivery events that have threat types specified. The results are sorted by timestamp in descending order.

Details

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Michalis Michalos

Released: October 3, 2023

Tables

EmailEventsEmailPostDeliveryEvents

Keywords

EmailEvents,EmailPostDeliveryEvents

Operators

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Actions