Dacl Abuse

Description

Collection of various DACL abuse events generated manually in Active Directory.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1222.001 Windows Permissions Defense Impairment

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory dacl_abuse
Test Date 2023-12-06

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Group_dacl_mod_windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/group_dacl_mod_windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Owner_updated_windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/owner_updated_windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Domain_root_acl_deletion_windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/domain_root_acl_deletion_windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Suspicious_acl_modification-Windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/suspicious_acl_modification-windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Domain_root_acl_mod_windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/domain_root_acl_mod_windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Hidden_ou_windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/hidden_ou_windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

User_dacl_mod_windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/user_dacl_mod_windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Hidden_object_windows-Security-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/hidden_object_windows-security-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

No specific detections currently use this attack data for testing. However, you can find related detections and analytics in our security content repository.

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1222.001/dacl_abuse/group_dacl_mod_windows-security-xml.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0