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Microsoft Entra user credentials

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This SIT is also included in the All credentials bundled SIT.

Format

A paired username and password related to *.onmicrosoft.com domain.

or

Plain-text password used in code snippets.

or

Plain-text password used in XML configuration.

Pattern

Various username and password formats, for example:

username=...password=********
/user:.../pass:********
SharePointOnlineAuthenticatedContext
sign_in

or

Various password formats in code snippets, for example:

new X509Certificates2( ...
ConvertTo-SecureString -String ********...
password = "********"...
"password" : "********"...
UserPasswordCredential( ...

or

Various password formats in XML, for example:

... <secret>********</secret> ...
... <password>********</password> ...
... <setting name="password" value="********" > ... 
... <setting name="password">********</setting> ... 
... <setting name="password"><value>********</value></setting> ...

Credential example

[email protected];password=ZYXWVU$1;

Checksum

No

SITs that have checksums use a unique calculation to check if the information is valid. This means when the Checksum value is Yes, the service can make a positive detection based on the sensitive data alone. When the Checksum value is No additional (secondary) elements must also be detected for the service to make a positive detection.

Keyword Highlighting

Supported

When keyword highlighting is supported in the contextual summary for a sensitive information type or a trainable classifier, in the Contextual Summary view of activity explorer, the keywords in a document that were matched to a policy are highlighted.

Definition

This SIT is designed to match the security information that's used as individual user passwords to authenticate against Microsoft Entra ID.

It uses several primary resources:

  • Patterns of Plain-text username and password for Microsoft Entra tenants.
  • Patterns of Password context in code.
  • Patterns of Password context in XML.
  • Patterns of CredentialName, CredentialFeatures, AccountIdentityName, AccountIdentityValue, ResourceType, ResourceName.
  • Patterns of mockup values, redactions, and placeholders.
  • A dictionary of vocabulary.

The patterns are designed to match actual credentials with reasonable confidence. The patterns don't match credentials formatted as examples. Mockup values, redacted values, and placeholders, like credential type or usage descriptions, in the position where an actual secret value should present won't be matched.

Keywords

Keyword_AzureActiveDirectoryLoginCredentials:

  • password
  • pw
  • userpass
  • credentials
  • cmdkey
  • Authenti
  • sign_in

Keyword_PasswordContextInCode:

  • key
  • x509c
  • credential
  • password
  • pw
  • securestring

Keyword_PasswordContextInXml:

  • userpass
  • password
  • pw
  • connectionstring
  • key
  • credential
  • token
  • sas
  • secret