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Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets: Kerberoasting T1558.003

Adversaries may abuse a valid Kerberos ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or sniff network traffic to obtain a ticket-granting service (TGS) ticket that may be vulnerable to Brute Force.

Events covered

10 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4611A trusted logon process has been registered with the Local Security Authority.
Security-Auditing4673A privileged service was called.
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.
Security-Auditing4769A Kerberos service ticket was requested.
Security-Auditing5136A directory service object was modified.
Security-Auditing5156The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a connection.
PowerShell4104Creating Scriptblock text (MessageNumber of MessageTotal).
Security-Kerberos16
Security-Kerberos27Kerberos client event 27 (manifest stub).

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 21 rules 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 (20 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
Image7ends_with 7, starts_with 1\KrbRelay.exe, \KrbRelayUp.exe, \RemoteKrbRelay.exe, \Rubeus.exe, \setspn.exe
OriginalFileName6eq 6KrbRelay.exe, KrbRelayUp.exe, RemoteKrbRelay.exe, Rubeus.exe, setspn.exe
CommandLine6match 6 -spn , session , shadowcred, -ComputerName , -Domain
ScriptBlockText5eq 3, match 2ptt /ticket:, asreproast , silver /user:, System.IdentityModel.Tokens.KerberosRequestorSecurityToken, .GetRequest()
EventID5eq 54104, 4769
TicketEncryptionType4eq 40x17
ServiceName4ends_with 2, ne 2$, "*$", krbtgt
Description2eq 1, match 1Rubeus, SPN attribute, Query or reset the computer
TicketOptions2eq 20x40810000, 0x40810010, 0x40800000
AttributeLDAPDisplayName1eq 1servicePrincipalName
ObjectClass1eq 1user
OperationType1eq 1%%14674
user1match 1$@
Status1eq 10x0
Provider_Name1eq 1Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center, Microsoft-Windows-Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center

Top indicator values (121 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
TicketEncryptionTypeeq0x1747
EventIDeq41043108
CommandLinematch -clsid 22
ServiceNameends_with$22
TicketOptionseq0x4081000023
ServiceNamene"*$"22
EventIDeq476926
OperationTypeeq%%1467414
ObjectClassequser14
AttributeLDAPDisplayNameeqservicePrincipalName16
CommandLinematchclsid 1
Imageends_with\KrbRelay.exe1
CommandLinematchsession 1
CommandLinematch -spn 1
CommandLinematchclsid1
CommandLinematchshadowcred1
CommandLinematchspn 1
CommandLinematch -rbcd 1
OriginalFileNameeqKrbRelay.exe1
CommandLinematchspn1

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.

Sigma 14 rules

Elastic 1 rule

Splunk 5 rules

Kusto Query Language 1 rule