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Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets: Golden Ticket T1558.001

Adversaries who have the KRBTGT account password hash may forge Kerberos ticket-granting tickets (TGT), also known as a golden ticket. Golden tickets enable adversaries to generate authentication material for any account in Active Directory.

Events covered

1 catalog event are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Security-Auditing4769A Kerberos service ticket was requested.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 1 rule above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. Field names are normalized across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (4 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
ServiceName1eq 1"*$"
TicketEncryptionType1eq 10x17
EventID1eq 14769
TicketOptions1eq 10x40810000, 0x40810010, 0x40800000

Top indicator values (6 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
TicketEncryptionTypeeq0x1717
ServiceNameeq"*$"12
TicketOptionseq0x4081000013
TicketOptionseq0x4080000012
EventIDeq476916
TicketOptionseq0x4081001012

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Splunk 1 rule