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Esentutl Gather Credentials

Severity
medium
Author
sam0x90
Source
upstream

Conti recommendation to its affiliates to use esentutl to access NTDS dumped file. Trickbot also uses this utilities to get MSEdge info via its module pwgrab.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1003 OS Credential Dumping, T1003.003 OS Credential Dumping: NTDS

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: ' /p'
CommandLine|contains: esentutl

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
CommandLinematch
  • /p
  • esentutl