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Addition of SID History to Active Directory Object

An attacker can use the SID history attribute to gain additional privileges.

MITRE ATT&CK

defense-evasionpersistenceprivilege-escalation

Detection Query

selection1:
  EventID:
    - 4765
    - 4766
selection2:
  EventID: 4738
selection3:
  SidHistory:
    - "-"
    - "%%1793"
filter_null:
  SidHistory: null
condition: selection1 or (selection2 and not selection3 and not filter_null)

Author

Thomas Patzke, @atc_project (improvements)

Created

2017-02-19

Data Sources

windowssecurity

Platforms

windows

References

https://adsecurity.org/?p=1772

Tags

attack.defense-evasionattack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalationattack.t1134.005

Raw Content

title: Addition of SID History to Active Directory Object
id: 2632954e-db1c-49cb-9936-67d1ef1d17d2
status: stable
description: An attacker can use the SID history attribute to gain additional privileges.
references:
    - https://adsecurity.org/?p=1772
author: Thomas Patzke, @atc_project (improvements)
date: 2017-02-19
tags:
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1134.005
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: security
detection:
    selection1:
        EventID:
            - 4765
            - 4766
    selection2:
        EventID: 4738
    selection3:
        SidHistory:
            - '-'
            - '%%1793'
    filter_null:
        SidHistory:
    condition: selection1 or (selection2 and not selection3 and not filter_null)
falsepositives:
    - Migration of an account into a new domain
level: medium