PowerShell Kerberos Ticket Dump

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Detects PowerShell scripts that have the capability of dumping Kerberos tickets from LSA, which potentially indicates an attacker’s attempt to acquire credentials for lateral movement.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • 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
  • Tactic: Credential Access
  • Data Source: PowerShell Logs

Version: 1

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.category:process and host.os.type:windows and
  powershell.file.script_block_text : (
    "LsaCallAuthenticationPackage" and
    (
      "KerbRetrieveEncodedTicketMessage" or
      "KerbQueryTicketCacheMessage" or
      "KerbQueryTicketCacheExMessage" or
      "KerbQueryTicketCacheEx2Message" or
      "KerbRetrieveTicketMessage" or
      "KerbDecryptDataMessage"
    )
  )

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM