Crowdstrike Medium Identity Risk Severity

name: Crowdstrike Medium Identity Risk Severity
id: c23b425c-9024-4bd7-b526-c18a4a51d93e
version: 7
date: '2026-03-10'
author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
data_source: []
type: TTP
status: production
description: The following analytic detects CrowdStrike alerts for Medium Identity Risk Severity with a risk score of 55 or higher. These alerts indicate significant vulnerabilities in user identities, such as suspicious behavior or compromised credentials. Promptly investigating and addressing these alerts is crucial to prevent potential security breaches and ensure the integrity and protection of sensitive information and systems.
search: |-
    `crowdstrike_identities` riskScoreSeverity = "MEDIUM" OR riskScore >= 0.55 AND riskScore < 0.70
      | rename riskFactors{}.severity as severity, riskFactors{}.type as risk_type, roles{}.type as role_type, accounts{}.domain as domain, accounts{}.dn as dn, accounts{}.samAccountName as user
      | stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime
        BY domain dn primaryDisplayName
           risk_type severity riskScore
           riskScoreSeverity user role_type
      | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
      | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
      | `crowdstrike_medium_identity_risk_severity_filter`
how_to_implement: To implement crowdstrike:identities logs, use the Falcon Streaming API. Set up an API client, authenticate with your CrowdStrike credentials, and subscribe to the "crowdstrike:identities" event stream. Process and store the logs as needed, integrating them into your logging or SIEM system for monitoring and analysis.
known_false_positives: No false positives have been identified at this time.
references:
    - https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CrowdStrike-Falcon-Event-Streams-Add-on-Guide-v3.pdf
drilldown_searches:
    - name: View the detection results for - "$user$"
      search: '%original_detection_search% | search  user = "$user$"'
      earliest_offset: $info_min_time$
      latest_offset: $info_max_time$
    - name: View risk events for the last 7 days for - "$user$"
      search: '| from datamodel Risk.All_Risk | search normalized_risk_object IN ("$user$") starthoursago=168  | stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(search_name) as "Search Name" values(risk_message) as "Risk Message" values(analyticstories) as "Analytic Stories" values(annotations._all) as "Annotations" values(annotations.mitre_attack.mitre_tactic) as "ATT&CK Tactics" by normalized_risk_object | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`'
      earliest_offset: $info_min_time$
      latest_offset: $info_max_time$
rba:
    message: Medium Identity Risk Score Severity found on $domain$
    risk_objects:
        - field: user
          type: user
          score: 50
    threat_objects: []
tags:
    analytic_story:
        - Compromised Windows Host
    asset_type: Endpoint
    mitre_attack_id:
        - T1110
    product:
        - Splunk Enterprise
        - Splunk Enterprise Security
        - Splunk Cloud
    security_domain: endpoint
tests:
    - name: True Positive Test
      attack_data:
        - data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/suspicious_behaviour/crowdstrike_stream/riskscore/crowdstrike_riskscore_cleaned.log
          sourcetype: crowdstrike:identities
          source: crowdstrike:identities