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HighSigmaHQ Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) +1

Sensitive File Recovery From Backup Via Wbadmin.EXE

Detects the dump of highly sensitive files such as "NTDS.DIT" and "SECURITY" hive. Attackers can leverage the "wbadmin" utility in order to dump sensitive files that might contain credential or sensitive information.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

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: process_creation

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/LOLBAS-Project/LOLBAS/blob/2cc01b01132b5c304027a658c698ae09dd6a92bf/yml/OSBinaries/Wbadmin.yml	Tool	2
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wbadmin-start-backup	Product documentation	2
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wbadmin-start-recovery	Product documentation	4from 2 sources
lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Wbadmin/	Tool	4from 2 sources

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