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Modification of the msPKIAccountCredentials

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Modification of the msPKIAccountCredentials

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Identify the modification of the msPKIAccountCredentials attribute in an Active Directory User Object. Attackers can abuse the credentials roaming feature to overwrite an arbitrary file for privilege escalation. ms-PKI-AccountCredentials contains binary large objects (BLOBs) of encrypted credential objects from the credential manager store, private keys, certificates, and certificate requests.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

winlogbeat-*
logs-system.*
logs-windows.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Domain: Endpoint
OS: Windows
Use Case: Threat Detection
Data Source: Active Directory
Tactic: Privilege Escalation
Use Case: Active Directory Monitoring

Version: 8

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.action:"Directory Service Changes" and event.code:"5136" and
  winlog.event_data.AttributeLDAPDisplayName:"msPKIAccountCredentials" and winlog.event_data.OperationType:"%%14674" and
  not winlog.event_data.SubjectUserSid : "S-1-5-18"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Privilege Escalation
- ID: TA0004
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
Technique:
- Name: Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
- ID: T1068
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1068/

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