Dormant Local Admin Logon
Adversaries may steal the credentials of a specific user or service account using credential access techniques or capture credentials earlier in their reconnaissance process through social engineering as a means of…
Description
Adversaries may steal the credentials of a specific user or service account using credential access techniques or capture credentials earlier in their reconnaissance process through social engineering as a means of gaining initial access. APT33, for example, has used valid accounts for initial access and privilege escalation. The query below It identifies interactive logons made by dormant accounts that also have local admin privileges a strong indicator of suspicious activity.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- behavioranalytics
- Log source service
- behavioranalytics
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 2e20ec77-8d50-4959-a70d-79c341ee2c37
- Tagged by the source as
- PrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1