Synopsis
Activation Period |
14 Days |
Training Period |
30 Days |
Test Period |
5 Minutes |
Deduplication Period |
1 Day |
Required Data |
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Detection Modules |
Identity Analytics |
Detector Tags |
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ATT&CK Tactic |
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ATT&CK Technique |
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Severity |
Informational |
Description
A user performed an enumeration on local groups to retrieve their details.
Attacker's Goals
An adversary may leverage local groups discovery to identify privileged groups and escalate privileges.
Investigative actions
- Determine the user, hostname, and process that performed the group enumeration.
- Inspect process, command-line arguments or scripts used.
- Check for any privilege escalation or lateral movement attempts from the source system.
- Check if the tool used to enumerate the local groups is a known or an approved tool.
- Review the logs for suspicious activity from the same host or user.
Variations
Local group enumeration for the first timeLocal group enumeration using a builtin Windows binary