IMPORTANT: This documentation is no longer updated. Refer to Elastic's version policy and the latest documentation.

PowerShell Kerberos Ticket Request

edit

Detects PowerShell scripts that have the capability of requesting kerberos tickets, which is common step in Kerberoasting toolkits to crack service accounts.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-windows.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Credential Access

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 8.1.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

edit
event.category:process and powershell.file.script_block_text : (
KerberosRequestorSecurityToken )

Threat mapping

edit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM