Azure risk event: Suspicious inbox manipulation rules that delete or move messages or folders

Alerts on Azure risk events for suspicious inbox rules that delete or move mailbox items.

FreeReviewedSigma · High · v5
Product
azure
Service
riskdetection
Author
Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo' (SigmaHQ), DRL 1.1
Published
2023-09-03
Updated
2026-07-31

ATT&CK techniques

Defense Evasion
  1. Recon

  2. Resource Dev

  3. Initial Access

  4. Execution

  5. Persistence

  6. Priv Esc

  7. Cred Access

  8. Discovery

  9. Lateral Movement

  10. Collection

  11. C2

  12. Exfiltration

  13. Impact

What it detects

This rule flags an Azure risk detection event indicating suspicious inbox manipulation rules that delete or move messages or folders within a user’s inbox. Attackers can use inbox rules to hide their activity, reroute communications, or degrade user visibility while maintaining persistence. The detection relies on Azure risk telemetry with the riskEventType value mcasSuspiciousInboxManipulationRules.

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Changelog

v5
  1. v5
    Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
  2. v4
    Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
  3. v3
    Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
  4. v2
    Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
  5. v1
    No changelog recorded for this version.2026-07-30

Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.