2/ In our AD assessments or IR cases, we repeatedly see that service accounts are highly privileged, often also part of the domain administrators group.
This can be disastrous, especially with a weak password for the service account:
3/ @Synacktiv took a closer look at the detection capabilities of Defender for Identity, including whether and how Kerberoasting could be detected. [1]
4/ Interestingly, the researchers found that a time-delay between the LDAP query to find accounts with an SPN and the request for the service ticket is enough to bypass the detection.
Whether this detection has been adjusted or revised in the meantime, I can't say.
"DFI includes logic to detect Kerberoasting activity in your environment. By taking signals from your domain controllers, Defender for Identity can help detect users enumerating your domain looking for Kerberoast-able accounts or attempts to actively exploit those accounts." [2]
6/ A recommendation for already relatively well-secured networks is to implement Honey-SPNs.
These service accounts are never used, and an alert should be generated if a service ticket is requested for his honey-account.
1/ We recently had an interesting #Azure case where the TA, instead of creating a new Inbox Rule, added email addresses of interest to the list of blocked senders and domains.
The incoming emails will get flagged as spam and moved to the Junk email folder. š
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2/ Here is a screenshot from Outlook web access
(the view might differ, as, for example, here on the screenshot from the theitbros [1])
1/ Customer receives an email from a network monitoring device that a host is supposedly infected with a #CoinMiner. The Task Manager on the said system shows the following screenshot š¤.
A story of an unpatched system, incorrect scoping, and š. š§µ
1/ I used #AutoRuns v14.09 (GUI) in my lab setup but noticed that it failed to find (or display) the malware in the Startup folder, although the file is there (screenshot below).
I checked back and forth, searched manually for the file, and restarted the OS and AutoRuns.
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2/ With #Velociraptor, I ran the hunt Sysinternals.Autoruns, and with the CLI version of AutoRuns, the malware is found in the Startup folder.
3/ The same for the #Velociraptor hunt Sys.StartupItems.
1/ Real-World #PingCastle Finding #13: Allow log on locally
ā”ļø Domain Users are eligible to log into DC's š¤Æš
"When you grant an account the Allow logon locally right, you are allowing that account to log on locally to all domain controllers in the domain." [1]
"If you do not restrict this user right to legitimate users who must log on to the console of the computer, unauthorized users could download and run malicious software to elevate their privileges." [1]
3/ I encountered this finding several times in our AD assessments, so you better check your settings in your domain right now (better safe than sorry š).