Account Lockout

Description

Manual generation of attack data by locking out an account

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1078.002 Domain Accounts Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory account_lockout
Test Date 2020-11-09

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1078.002/account_lockout/windows-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Windows-Xml-1

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1078.002/account_lockout/windows-xml-1.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1078.002/account_lockout/windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Detect Excessive Account Lockouts From Endpoint Anomaly Endpoint T1078.002 Active Directory Password Spraying
Detect Excessive User Account Lockouts Anomaly Endpoint T1078.003 Active Directory Password Spraying, Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1078.002/account_lockout/windows-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