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No Suitable Encryption Key Found For Generating Kerberos Ticket

Severity
low
Author
@SerkinValery
Source
upstream

Detects errors when a target server doesn't have suitable keys for generating kerberos tickets. This issue can occur for example when a service uses a user account or a computer account that is configured for only DES encryption on a computer that is running Windows 7 which has DES encryption for Kerberos authentication disabled.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1558.003 Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets: Kerberoasting

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Security-Kerberos16
Security-Kerberos27Kerberos client event 27 (manifest stub).

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Provider_Name: [Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center, 'Microsoft-Windows-Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center']

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
Provider_Nameeq
  • Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center
  • Microsoft-Windows-Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center

Neighbors

Often fire together

Rules that target events appearing in the same incident timelines. They pattern-match on adjacent steps of the same TTP, so an alert from one is often paired with alerts from these. Useful for triage context and for assembling chained-detection rules.