Potential Kerberos Coercion via DNS-Based SPN Spoofing

Last updated 10 days ago on 2025-06-14
Created 10 days ago on 2025-06-14

About

Identifies the creation of a DNS record containing a base64-encoded blob matching the pattern "UWhRCA...BAAAA". This pattern corresponds to a marshaled CREDENTIAL_TARGET_INFORMATION structure, commonly used in Kerberos coercion attacks. It is associated with tools and techniques that exploit SPN spoofing via DNS. Adversaries may abuse this to coerce victim systems into authenticating to attacker-controlled hosts while requesting Kerberos tickets for legitimate services (often the victim's own identity). This enables reflective Kerberos relay attacks, potentially resulting in privileged access such as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, without relying on NTLM fallback.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Credential AccessData Source: Active DirectoryUse Case: Active Directory MonitoringData Source: Windows Security Event LogsLanguage: kuery
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Credential Access (TA0006)(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
logs-system.security*logs-windows.forwarded*winlogbeat-*
Related Integrations

system(opens in a new tab or window)

windows(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
(event.code:4662 and winlog.event_data.AdditionalInfo: *UWhRC*BAAAA*MicrosoftDNS*) or 
(event.code:5137 and winlog.event_data.ObjectDN: *UWhRC*BAAAA*MicrosoftDNS*)

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Potential Kerberos Coercion via DNS-Based SPN Spoofing 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).