Enumerating Domain Trust Relationships with Nltest.exe

Left unchecked, SocGholish may lead to domain discovery. This type of behavior is often a precursor to ransomware activity, and should be quickly quelled to prevent further progression of the threat. Part of the RedCanary 2024 Threat Detection Report.

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 1title: Enumerating Domain Trust Relationships with Nltest.exe
 2id: 3ddc7df5-780a-442a-8d41-269f476ed24a
 3status: experimental
 4description: |
 5    Left unchecked, SocGholish may lead to domain discovery. This type of behavior is 
 6    often a precursor to ransomware activity, and should be quickly quelled to prevent 
 7    further progression of the threat. Part of the RedCanary 2024 Threat Detection Report.    
 8references:
 9    - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/threats/socgholish/
10author: RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski
11date: 2024/03/21
12tags:
13    - attack.discovery
14    - attack.t1482
15logsource:
16    category: process_creation
17    product: windows
18detection:
19    selection:
20        Image|endswith: '\nltest.exe'
21        CommandLine|contains:
22            - '/domain_trusts'
23            - '/all_trusts'
24    condition: selection
25falsepositives:
26    - Unknown
27level: low```

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