HighSigmaHQ Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)

Suspicious Get-ADDBAccount Usage

Detects suspicious invocation of the Get-ADDBAccount script that reads from a ntds.dit file and may be used to get access to credentials without using any credential dumpers

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Platform: Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: ps_module

Known benign triggers

Unknown

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
github.com/MichaelGrafnetter/DSInternals/blob/7ba59c12ee9a1cb430d7dc186a3366842dd612c8/Documentation/PowerShell/Get-ADDBAccount.md	Tool	Only this detection cites it
www.n00py.io/2022/03/manipulating-user-passwords-without-mimikatz/	Unclassified	3

Detection rules

Suspicious Get-ADDBAccount Usage

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Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

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