Create threatAssessmentRequest

Create a new threat assessment request.

A threat assessment request can be one of the following types:

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) ThreatAssessment.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Not supported. Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of a threatAssessmentRequest object.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a new threatAssessmentRequest object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Create a mail assessment request

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailAssessmentRequest",
  "recipientEmail": "tifc@contoso.com",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "spam",
  "messageUri": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/c52ce8db-3e4b-4181-93c4-7d6b6bffaf60/messages/AAMkADU3MWUxOTU0LWNlOTEt="
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailAssessmentRequest",
  "id": "49c5ef5b-1f65-444a-e6b9-08d772ea2059",
  "createdDateTime": "2019-11-27T03:30:18.6890937Z",
  "contentType": "mail",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "spam",
  "status": "pending",
  "requestSource": "administrator",
  "recipientEmail": "tifc@contoso.com",
  "destinationRoutingReason": "notJunk",
  "messageUri": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/c52ce8db-3e4b-4181-93c4-7d6b6bffaf60/messages/AAMkADU3MWUxOTU0LWNlOTEt=",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "c52ce8db-3e4b-4181-93c4-7d6b6bffaf60",
      "displayName": "Ronald Admin"
    }
  }
}

Example 2: Create an email assessment request

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.emailFileAssessmentRequest",
  "recipientEmail": "tifc@contoso.com",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "malware",
  "contentData": "UmVjZWl2ZWQ6IGZyb20gTVcyUFIwME1CMDMxNC5uYW1wcmQwMC....."
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.emailFileAssessmentRequest",
  "id": "ab2ad9b3-2213-4091-ae0c-08d76ddbcacf",
  "createdDateTime": "2019-11-20T17:05:06.4088076Z",
  "contentType": "mail",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "malware",
  "status": "completed",
  "requestSource": "administrator",
  "recipientEmail": "tifc@contoso.com",
  "destinationRoutingReason": "notJunk",
  "contentData": "",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "c52ce8db-3e4b-4181-93c4-7d6b6bffaf60",
      "displayName": "Ronald Admin"
    }
  }
}

Example 3: Create a file assessment request

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAssessmentRequest",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "malware",
  "fileName": "test.txt",
  "contentData": "VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3QgZmlsZQ=="
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAssessmentRequest",
  "id": "18406a56-7209-4720-a250-08d772fccdaa",
  "createdDateTime": "2019-11-27T05:44:00.4051536Z",
  "contentType": "file",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "malware",
  "status": "completed",
  "requestSource": "administrator",
  "fileName": "b3d5b715-4b88-4bbb-b0ae-9a9281a3f18a.csv",
  "contentData": "",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "c52ce8db-3e4b-4181-93c4-7d6b6bffaf60",
      "displayName": "Ronald Admin"
    }
  }
}

Example 4: Create an url assessment request

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.urlAssessmentRequest",
  "url": "http://test.com",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "phishing"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#informationProtection/threatAssessmentRequests/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.urlAssessmentRequest",
  "id": "8d87d2b2-ca4d-422c-f8df-08d774a5c9ac",
  "createdDateTime": "2019-11-29T08:26:09.8196703Z",
  "contentType": "url",
  "expectedAssessment": "block",
  "category": "phishing",
  "status": "pending",
  "requestSource": "administrator",
  "url": "http://test.com",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "c52ce8db-3e4b-4181-93c4-7d6b6bffaf60",
      "displayName": "Ronald Admin"
    }
  }
}