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DETECTION OVERVIEW

Alias Member Enumeration Attempt

Risk Factors

Enumeration is a simple but important step taken by attackers after an initial network compromise. Reconnaissance tools such as Bloodhound make enumeration relatively easy to perform. Enumeration activity typically does not negatively affect network performance, but attackers can leverage this information to find new targets in an attack campaign.

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Category

Reconnaissance
Detection diagram
Next in Reconnaissance: BloodHound Enumeration Activity

Attack Background

After infiltrating a network, an attacker typically looks for privileged users as their next target. To find these users, an attacker might connect to directory services or accounts to enumerate users, domains, groups, or aliases on the network. Active Directory (AD) is the directory service in a domain-based Windows environment, and every Windows device also has a built-in account database called the Security Account Manager (SAM), which stores local account information. One approach for enumerating members associated with an alias is to send Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) queries to account databases over the Security Account Manager Remote Protocol (MS-SAMR) interface.

Mitigation Options

Upgrade Windows to Windows 10 version 1607 or later, which restricts SAM access to only local administrators

Prevent unauthorized users from accessing MS-SAMR by placing restrictions on which clients are allowed to remotely query MS-SAMR

Limit the number of users with local administrator privileges in your environment

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