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Kerberos Cached Credentials Dumping

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Kerberos Cached Credentials Dumping

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Identifies the use of the Kerberos credential cache (kcc) utility to dump locally cached Kerberos tickets. Adversaries may attempt to dump credential material in the form of tickets that can be leveraged for lateral movement.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • auditbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • macOS
  • Threat Detection
  • Credential Access

Version: 100 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.name:kcc and process.args:copy_cred_cache

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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Version 6 (8.4.0 release)
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Version 4 (7.16.0 release)
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Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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