Rule Creation for RDP

@jstoner, (& any other staff) hope you're well.

I have been tinkering with Yara-L for a rule creation. Specifically, I want to detect RDP connections from users/hostnames in which their last RDP usage was 35 or more days ago (30 days is also fine). Is this possible with the current Yara-L? I've almost everything but I can't quite nail it down. If this isn't possible, is there a suitable compromise you can suggest e.g search for RDP connections then check if the associated user has logged in the past 30 days.
This is the best I've gotten:

rule rare_rdp_connections {
  meta:
     author: Bob
     etc. etc.
  events:
    $e1.metadata.event_type = "NETWORK_CONNECTION"
    $e1.src.port = 3389 or
    $e1.target.port = 3389 or
    $e1.network.application_protocol = "RDP"

    $e1.principal.user.userid = $user

 outcome:
    $login_monthly_access = max(metrics.auth_attemtps_success)(period:1d, window:30d, metric:event_count_sum, agg:sum, $user)

 condition:
    $e1 and $login_monthly_access < 1

}

Again, ignoring any small errors, I want to know if this request is logically possible within YARA-L 2.0 & if not, is there a compromised version you can think of.

Thanks!

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@JohnDonDoe I think you can add the target.application and target.user.userid filter to the metrics to get the data you want.

rule rare_rdp_connections {
  meta:
     author: Bob
     etc. etc.
  events:
    $e1.metadata.event_type = "NETWORK_CONNECTION"
    $e1.src.port = 3389 or
    $e1.target.port = 3389 or
    $e1.network.application_protocol = "RDP"

    $user = $e1.principal.user.userid
    $target_app = $e1.target.application

 outcome:
    $login_monthly_access = max(metrics.auth_attemtps_success(period:1d, window:30d, metric:event_count_sum, agg:sum, target.application:$target_app, target.user.userid:$user))

 condition:
    $e1 and $login_monthly_access < 1

}

One note, you would need to verify the target.application UDM field is set correctly. That would depend on the log_type and parser/parser extension.

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