Suspicious Connection to Remote Account

Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts. Without knowledge of the password for an account, an adversary may opt to systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism

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 1title: Suspicious Connection to Remote Account
 2id: 1883444f-084b-419b-ac62-e0d0c5b3693f
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts.
 6    Without knowledge of the password for an account, an adversary may opt to systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism    
 7references:
 8    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1110.001/T1110.001.md#atomic-test-2---brute-force-credentials-of-single-active-directory-domain-user-via-ldap-against-domain-controller-ntlm-or-kerberos
 9author: frack113
10date: 2021-12-27
11tags:
12    - attack.credential-access
13    - attack.t1110.001
14logsource:
15    product: windows
16    category: ps_script
17    definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled'
18detection:
19    selection:
20        ScriptBlockText|contains:
21            - 'System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LdapDirectoryIdentifier'
22            - 'System.Net.NetworkCredential'
23            - 'System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LdapConnection'
24    condition: selection
25falsepositives:
26    - Unknown
27level: low

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