PowerShell Kerberos Ticket Request

Last updated a month ago on 2025-03-20
Created 3 years ago on 2022-01-24

About

Detects PowerShell scripts that have the capability of requesting kerberos tickets, which is a common step in Kerberoasting toolkits to crack service accounts.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Credential AccessData Source: PowerShell LogsLanguage: kuery
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Credential Access (TA0006)(opens in a new tab or window)

Execution (TA0002)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
winlogbeat-*logs-windows.powershell*
Related Integrations

windows(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.category:process and host.os.type:windows and
  powershell.file.script_block_text : (
    KerberosRequestorSecurityToken
  ) and not user.id : ("S-1-5-18" or "S-1-5-20") and
  not powershell.file.script_block_text : (
    ("sentinelbreakpoints" and ("Set-PSBreakpoint" or "Set-HookFunctionTabs")) or
    ("function global" and "\\windows\\sentinel\\4")
  )

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect PowerShell Kerberos Ticket Request in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).