DETECTION OVERVIEW
Risk Factors
AD Explorer is a publicly available tool for viewing and managing AD databases. Attackers can view an AD snapshot to discover important information, enabling later steps of the attack campaign.
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AD Explorer is considered to be dual-use software, which can be leveraged for both legitimate and malicious activity. An attacker with network access to the Domain Controller (DC) can run AD Explorer to capture a snapshot of the AD database and save the copy to a local file. The snapshot serves as a record of the AD environment. Attackers can enumerate information from the snapshot offline about objects within the domain, such as privileged users, groups, configuration settings, and subnets without being detected.
Apply the principles of least privilege to domain users to reduce the information users can enumerate through tools such as AD Explorer
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