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Password Policy Discovery With Get-AdDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy

Detetcts PowerShell activity in which Get-Addefaultdomainpasswordpolicy is used to get the default password policy for an Active Directory domain.

MITRE ATT&CK

T1201

discovery

Detection Query

selection:
  ScriptBlockText|contains: Get-AdDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy
condition: selection

Author

frack113

Created

2022-03-17

Data Sources

windowsps_script

Platforms

windows

References

Tags

attack.discoveryattack.t1201

Raw Content

title: Password Policy Discovery With Get-AdDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy
id: bbb9495b-58fc-4016-b9df-9a3a1b67ca82
status: test
description: Detetcts PowerShell activity in which Get-Addefaultdomainpasswordpolicy is used to get the default password policy for an Active Directory domain.
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1201/T1201.md#atomic-test-9---enumerate-active-directory-password-policy-with-get-addefaultdomainpasswordpolicy
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/activedirectory/get-addefaultdomainpasswordpolicy?view=windowsserver2022-ps
author: frack113
date: 2022-03-17
tags:
    - attack.discovery
    - attack.t1201
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: ps_script
    definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled'
detection:
    selection:
        ScriptBlockText|contains: Get-AdDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate PowerShell scripts
level: low