Detection rules › Sigma

Suspicious Usage Of Active Directory Diagnostic Tool (ntdsutil.exe)

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects execution of ntdsutil.exe to perform different actions such as restoring snapshots...etc.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1003.003 OS Credential Dumping: NTDS

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\ntdsutil.exe'
OriginalFileName: ntdsutil.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' i'
CommandLine|contains: ' ntds'
CommandLine|contains: ac
CommandLine|contains: 'mount '
CommandLine|contains: snapshot

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
  • i corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • ntds
  • ac
  • mount
  • snapshot corpus 3 (sigma 3)
Imageends_with
  • \ntdsutil.exe corpus 4 (sigma 4)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • ntdsutil.exe