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| 1 | +[metadata] |
| 2 | +creation_date = "2022/05/31" |
| 3 | +maturity = "production" |
| 4 | +updated_date = "2022/07/05" |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +[rule] |
| 7 | +author = ["Elastic"] |
| 8 | +description = """ |
| 9 | +Identifies the use of nltest.exe for domain trust discovery purposes. Adversaries may use this command-line utility to |
| 10 | +enumerate domain trusts and gain insight into trust relationships, as well as the state of Domain Controller (DC) |
| 11 | +replication in a Microsoft Windows NT Domain. |
| 12 | +""" |
| 13 | +false_positives = [ |
| 14 | + """ |
| 15 | + Domain administrators may use this command-line utility for legitimate information gathering purposes, but it is not |
| 16 | + common for environments with Windows Server 2012 and newer. |
| 17 | + """, |
| 18 | +] |
| 19 | +from = "now-9m" |
| 20 | +index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "logs-windows.*"] |
| 21 | +language = "eql" |
| 22 | +license = "Elastic License v2" |
| 23 | +name = "Enumerating Domain Trusts via NLTEST.EXE" |
| 24 | +note = """## Config |
| 25 | +
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| 26 | +If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work. |
| 27 | +""" |
| 28 | +references = [ |
| 29 | + "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc731935(v=ws.11)", |
| 30 | + "https://redcanary.com/blog/how-one-hospital-thwarted-a-ryuk-ransomware-outbreak/", |
| 31 | +] |
| 32 | +risk_score = 23 |
| 33 | +rule_id = "84da2554-e12a-11ec-b896-f661ea17fbcd" |
| 34 | +severity = "low" |
| 35 | +tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Windows", "Threat Detection", "Discovery"] |
| 36 | +timestamp_override = "event.ingested" |
| 37 | +type = "eql" |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +query = ''' |
| 40 | +process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and |
| 41 | + process.name : "nltest.exe" and process.args : ( |
| 42 | + "/DCLIST:*", "/DCNAME:*", "/DSGET*", |
| 43 | + "/LSAQUERYFTI:*", "/PARENTDOMAIN", |
| 44 | + "/DOMAIN_TRUSTS", "/BDC_QUERY:*") |
| 45 | +''' |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +[[rule.threat]] |
| 49 | +framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" |
| 50 | +[[rule.threat.technique]] |
| 51 | +id = "T1482" |
| 52 | +name = "Domain Trust Discovery" |
| 53 | +reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1482/" |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +[rule.threat.tactic] |
| 57 | +id = "TA0007" |
| 58 | +name = "Discovery" |
| 59 | +reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/" |
| 60 | + |
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