Invocation of Active Directory Diagnostic Tool (ntdsutil.exe)

 1title: Invocation of Active Directory Diagnostic Tool (ntdsutil.exe)
 2id: 2afafd61-6aae-4df4-baed-139fa1f4c345
 3status: test
 4description: Detects execution of ntdsutil.exe, which can be used for various attacks against the NTDS database (NTDS.DIT)
 5references:
 6    - https://jpcertcc.github.io/ToolAnalysisResultSheet/details/ntdsutil.htm
 7author: Thomas Patzke
 8date: 2019-01-16
 9modified: 2022-03-11
10tags:
11    - attack.credential-access
12    - attack.t1003.003
13logsource:
14    category: process_creation
15    product: windows
16detection:
17    selection:
18        Image|endswith: '\ntdsutil.exe'
19    condition: selection
20falsepositives:
21    - NTDS maintenance
22level: medium

References

• ntdsutil

  1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{533c5b84-ec70-11d2-9505-00c04f79deaf}\0000\DriverDesc String Generic volume shadow copy HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Clas...

  
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