Local group enumeration

Cortex XDR Analytics Alert Reference by Alert name

Product
Cortex XDR
Last date published
2026-03-10
Category
Analytics Alert Reference
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Synopsis

Activation Period

14 Days

Training Period

30 Days

Test Period

5 Minutes

Deduplication Period

1 Day

Required Data

  • Requires one of the following data sources:
    • Windows Event Collector
      OR
    • XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)

Detection Modules

Identity Analytics

Detector Tags

ATT&CK Tactic

Discovery (TA0007)

ATT&CK Technique

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 time

Synopsis

ATT&CK Tactic

Discovery (TA0007)

ATT&CK Technique

Severity

Low

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.


Local group enumeration using a builtin Windows binary

Synopsis

ATT&CK Tactic

Discovery (TA0007)

ATT&CK Technique

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.