Enumerating Domain Trusts via DSQUERY.EXE

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Identifies the use of dsquery.exe for domain trust discovery purposes. Adversaries may use this command-line utility to enumerate trust relationships that may be used for Lateral Movement opportunities in Windows multi-domain forest environments.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*
  • logs-windows.*
  • endgame-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Discovery
  • Elastic Endgame

Version: 1

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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process where event.type == "start" and
    (process.name : "dsquery.exe" or process.pe.original_file_name: "dsquery.exe") and
    process.args : "*objectClass=trustedDomain*"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM