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Description

The following analytic looks for changes to the sIDHistory AD attribute of user or computer objects within different domains. The SID history AD attribute allows users to inherit permissions from a separate AD account without group changes. Initially developed for access continuity when migrating user accounts to different domains, this attribute can also be abused by adversaries for inter-domain privilege escalation and persistence.

  • Type: TTP

  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud

  • Last Updated: 2022-11-17
  • Author: Dean Luxton
  • ID: 41bbb371-28ba-439c-bb5c-d9930c28365d

Annotations

ATT&CK

ATT&CK

ID Technique Tactic
T1134.005 SID-History Injection Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1134 Access Token Manipulation Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
Kill Chain Phase
  • Actions on Objectives
NIST
  • DE.CM
CIS20
  • CIS 4
  • CIS 6
  • CIS 16
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`wineventlog_security` (EventCode=4742 OR EventCode=4738) NOT SidHistory IN ("%%1793", -) 
| rex field=SidHistory "(^%{
|^)(?P<SidHistoryMatch>.*)(\-
|\\\)" 
| rex field=TargetSid "^(?P<TargetSidmatch>.*)(\-
|\\\)" 
| where SidHistoryMatch!=TargetSidmatch AND SidHistoryMatch!=TargetDomainName 
| rename TargetSid as userSid 
| table _time action status host user userSid SidHistory Logon_ID src_user 
| `windows_ad_cross_domain_sid_history_addition_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

:information_source: windows_ad_cross_domain_sid_history_addition_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required fields

List of fields required to use this analytic.

  • _time
  • EventCode
  • SidHistory
  • TargetSid
  • TargetDomainName
  • user
  • src_user
  • Logon_ID

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting eventcodes 4738 and 4742. The Advanced Security Audit policy settings Audit User Account Management and Audit Computer Account Management within Account Management all need to be enabled.

Known False Positives

Domain mergers and migrations may generate large volumes of false positives for this analytic.

Associated Analytic Story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
80.0 100 80 Active Directory SID History Attribute was added to $user$ by $src_user$

:information_source: The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.

Reference

Test Dataset

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