Microsoft 365 Exchange Safe Link Policy Disablededit
Identifies when a Safe Link policy is disabled in Microsoft 365. Safe Link policies for Office applications extend phishing protection to documents that contain hyperlinks, even after they have been delivered to a user.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-o365*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
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
- Identity and Access
Version: 4 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positivesedit
Disabling safe links may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify that the configuration change was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.
Investigation guideedit
Config
The Microsoft 365 Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.
Rule queryedit
event.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:Exchange and event.category:web and event.action:"Disable-SafeLinksRule" and event.outcome:success
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Initial Access
- ID: TA0001
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0001/
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Technique:
- Name: Phishing
- ID: T1566
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 4 (7.13.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only