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CHAIN-097 — Legacy File Share SMB exposed outside trusted network

Summary

Severity: High · Likelihood: Medium · Logic: ALL

Why this chain matters

An Azure Files share uses SMB and is reachable over public IP addresses (firewall allows Azure services + public). Any compromised VM can mount the share with a captured account key.

Component rules

This chain fires when its trigger conditions are met by the following rules. Click any rule to see its detection logic and compliance mappings.

Rule ID Role
zt_data_019 Trigger
zt_net_005 Trigger

Attack walkthrough

Step 1 — net use \account.file.core.windows.net\share /user:AZURE\account .

Actor: Attacker with key
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078
Enabled by: zt_data_019

Attacker gain: Mounted share from anywhere.

Step 2 — Walk share, exfiltrate, or deploy ransomware.

Actor: Attacker
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486
Enabled by: zt_net_005

Attacker gain: Mass file-server compromise.

Blast radius

Initial access Captured key + SMB reachability.
Max privilege Full share access.
Data at risk Every file on the share
Services at risk Azure Files consumers

How the logic works

The chain fires only when every rule above has at least one finding in the current scan. Missing any one rule breaks the chain — so remediating any single step disrupts the attack path.