Invocation of Active Directory Diagnostic Tool (ntdsutil.exe)

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Applies to: Log360Log360 Cloud

About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects execution of ntdsutil.exe, which can be used for various attacks against the NTDS database (NTDS.DIT)

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\ntdsutil.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Active Directory

Author

Thomas Patzke