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Submit or Update Indicator API

Applies to:

• Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP)

Note

Currently this API is supported only for AppOnly context requests. (See Get access with application context for more information)

• Submits or Updates new Indicator entity.

Note

There is a limit of 5000 indicators per tenant.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Get started

Permission type	Permission	Permission display name
Application	Ti.ReadWrite	'Read and write Indicators'
Application	Ti.ReadWrite.All	'Read and write All Indicators'

HTTP request

POST https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/indicators

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Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	String	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	string	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON object with the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
indicatorValue	String	Identity of the Indicator entity. Required
indicatorType	Enum	Type of the indicator. Possible values are: "FileSha1", "FileSha256", "IpAddress", "DomainName" and "Url". Required
action	Enum	The action that will be taken if the indicator will be discovered in the organization. Possible values are: "Alert", "AlertAndBlock", and "Allowed". Required
title	String	Indicator alert title. Optional
expirationTime	DateTimeOffset	The expiration time of the indicator. Optional
severity	Enum	The severity of the indicator. possible values are: "Informational", "Low", "Medium" and "High". Optional
description	String	Description of the indicator. Optional
recommendedActions	String	TI indicator alert recommended actions. Optional

Response

• If successful, this method returns 200 - OK response code and the created / updated Indicator entity in the response body.
• If not successful: this method return 400 - Bad Request / 409 - Conflict with the failure reason. Bad request usually indicates incorrect body and Conflict can happen if you try to submit an Indicator that conflicts with an existing Indicator type or Action.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

POST https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/indicators
Content-type: application/json
{
	"indicatorValue": "220e7d15b0b3d7fac48f2bd61114db1022197f7f",
	"indicatorType": "FileSha1",
	"title": "test",
	"expirationTime": "2020-12-12T00:00:00Z",
	"action": "AlertAndBlock",
	"severity": "Informational",
	"description": "test",
	"recommendedActions": "TEST"
}

Response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
    "@odata.context": "https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/$metadata#Indicators/$entity",
    "indicatorValue": "220e7d15b0b3d7fac48f2bd61114db1022197f7f",
    "indicatorType": "FileSha1",
    "title": "test",
    "creationTimeDateTimeUtc": "2018-10-24T10:54:23.2009016Z",
    "createdBy": "45097602-1234-5678-1234-9f453233e62c",
    "expirationTime": "2020-12-12T00:00:00Z",
    "action": "AlertAndBlock",
    "severity": "Informational",
    "description": "test",
    "recommendedActions": "TEST",
	"rbacGroupNames": []
}

Related topic

• Manage indicators