Techniques
Sample rules
Unknown Process Using The Kerberos Protocol
- source: splunk
- technicques:
- T1550
Description
The following analytic identifies a process performing an outbound connection on port 88 used by default by the network authentication protocol Kerberos. Typically, on a regular Windows endpoint, only the lsass.exe process is the one tasked with connecting to the Kerberos Distribution Center to obtain Kerberos tickets. Identifying an unknown process using this protocol may be evidence of an adversary abusing the Kerberos protocol.
Detection logic
| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count FROM datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process_name!=lsass.exe by _time Processes.process_id Processes.process_name Processes.dest Processes.process_path Processes.process Processes.parent_process_name
| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)`
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| join process_id dest [
| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count FROM datamodel=Network_Traffic.All_Traffic where All_Traffic.dest_port = 88 by All_Traffic.src All_Traffic.process_id All_Traffic.dest_port
| `drop_dm_object_name(All_Traffic)`
| rename src as dest ]
| table _time dest parent_process_name process_name process_path process process_id dest_port
| `unknown_process_using_the_kerberos_protocol_filter`