Short Lived Windows Accounts
Description
This search detects accounts that were created and deleted in a short time period.
- Type: TTP
- Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
- Datamodel: Change
- Last Updated: 2020-07-06
- Author: David Dorsey, Splunk
- ID: b25f6f62-0782-43c1-b403-083231ffd97d
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ATT&CK
Kill Chain Phase
- Installation
NIST
- DE.CM
CIS20
- CIS 10
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| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` values(All_Changes.result_id) as result_id count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Change where All_Changes.result_id=4720 OR All_Changes.result_id=4726 by _time span=4h All_Changes.user All_Changes.dest
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `drop_dm_object_name("All_Changes")`
| search result_id = 4720 result_id=4726
| transaction user connected=false maxspan=240m
| table firstTime lastTime count user dest result_id
| `short_lived_windows_accounts_filter`
Macros
The SPL above uses the following Macros:
short_lived_windows_accounts_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
- All_Changes.result_id
- All_Changes.user
- All_Changes.dest
How To Implement
This search requires you to have enabled your Group Management Audit Logs in your Local Windows Security Policy and be ingesting those logs. More information on how to enable them can be found here: http://whatevernetworks.com/auditing-group-membership-changes-in-active-directory/
Known False Positives
It is possible that an administrator created and deleted an account in a short time period. Verifying activity with an administrator is advised.
Associated Analytic Story
RBA
Risk Score | Impact | Confidence | Message |
---|---|---|---|
63.0 | 70 | 90 | A user account created or delete shortly in host $dest$ |
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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