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Suspicious Connection to Remote Account — Sigma Rule

Sigma rule 1883444f-084b-419b-ac62-e0d0c5b3693f. Suspicious Connection to Remote Account — Sigma Rule. Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts. Without knowledge of the password for an account, an adversary may opt to systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism

Rule metadata and linked tags

Author: frack113. Source status: test; severity: low. Source dates: 2021-12-27 / not supplied.

{
  "product": "windows",
  "category": "ps_script",
  "definition": "Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled"
}

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Source SHA-256: 835eb5fa683a17c60463e60b6848c37d14b6922f2769a16d9b59668ce884a893

Detection logic

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title: Suspicious Connection to Remote Account
id: 1883444f-084b-419b-ac62-e0d0c5b3693f
status: test
description: |
    Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts.
    Without knowledge of the password for an account, an adversary may opt to systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1110.001/T1110.001.md#atomic-test-2---brute-force-credentials-of-single-active-directory-domain-user-via-ldap-against-domain-controller-ntlm-or-kerberos
author: frack113
date: 2021-12-27
tags:
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.t1110.001
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: ps_script
    definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled'
detection:
    selection:
        ScriptBlockText|contains:
            - 'System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LdapDirectoryIdentifier'
            - 'System.Net.NetworkCredential'
            - 'System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LdapConnection'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: low

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False positives

  • Unknown

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