Dump Ntds.dit To Suspicious Location

Severity: medium
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects potential abuse of ntdsutil to dump ntds.dit database to a suspicious location

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
ESENT	325

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `all of selection_root`

Data|contains: ntds.dit
Provider_Name: ESENT

Stage 2: `all of selection_paths`

or:
Data|contains: ':\ntds.dit'
Data|contains: '\Appdata\'
Data|contains: '\Desktop\'
Data|contains: '\Downloads\'
Data|contains: '\Perflogs\'
Data|contains: '\Temp\'
Data|contains: '\Users\Public\'

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.

Field	Kind	Values
`Data`	match	`:\ntds.dit` `\Appdata\` `\Desktop\` corpus 2 (sigma 2) `\Downloads\` `\Perflogs\` `\Temp\` `\Users\Public\` corpus 2 (sigma 2) `ntds.dit` corpus 2 (sigma 2)
`Provider_Name`	eq	`ESENT` corpus 2 (sigma 2)