Esentutl Gather Credentials
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Conti recommendation to its affiliates to use esentutl to access NTDS dumped file. Trickbot also uses this utilities to get MSEdge info via its module pwgrab.
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND COMMANDLINE contains "esentutl" AND COMMANDLINE contains " /p" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Active Directory
Author
sam0x90


