Elastic Security Detection Rules

PowerShell Kerberos Ticket Dump

Last updated 5 months ago on 2025-03-20
Created 2 years ago on 2023-07-26

About

Detects PowerShell scripts that have the capability of dumping Kerberos tickets from LSA, which potentially indicates an attacker's attempt to acquire credentials for lateral movement.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Credential AccessData Source: PowerShell LogsLanguage: kuery
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

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

↳ OS Credential Dumping (T1003)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets (T1558)(opens in a new tab or window)

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

↳ Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059)(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 : (
    "LsaCallAuthenticationPackage" and
    (
      "KerbRetrieveEncodedTicketMessage" or
      "KerbQueryTicketCacheMessage" or
      "KerbQueryTicketCacheExMessage" or
      "KerbQueryTicketCacheEx2Message" or
      "KerbRetrieveTicketMessage" or
      "KerbDecryptDataMessage"
    )
  )

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect PowerShell Kerberos Ticket Dump 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).