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Local Account TokenFilter Policy Disabled

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Local Account TokenFilter Policy Disabled

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Identifies registry modification to the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy policy. If this value exists (which doesn’t by default) and is set to 1, then remote connections from all local members of Administrators are granted full high-integrity tokens during negotiation.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*
  • logs-windows.*
  • endgame-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Defense Evasion
  • Privilege Escalation
  • Elastic Endgame

Version: 3

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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registry where host.os.type == "windows" and registry.path : (
  "HKLM\\*\\LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy",
  "\\REGISTRY\\MACHINE\\*\\LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy") and
  registry.data.strings : ("1", "0x00000001")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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