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Certified Pre-Owned - TGTs requested with certificate authentication

Source
upstream

This query identifies someone using machine certificates to request Kerberos Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs).

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1036 Masquerading

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Security-Auditing4768A Kerberos authentication ticket (TGT) was requested.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: source

SecurityEvent

Stage 2: where

 macro "(TimeGenerated >= ago(timeframe))"

Stage 3: where

EventID eq "4768"

Stage 4: project

Stage 5: mv-expand

Stage 6: where

not
  CIN is_null

Stage 7: parse

Exclusions

Top-level NOT(...) conjuncts — predicates this rule actively suppresses.

StageFieldKindExcluded values
1CINis_null(no value — null check)

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
EventIDeq
  • 4768 corpus 10 (splunk 10)