DETECTION OVERVIEW
Risk Factors
PingCastle is one of many publicly available tools for scanning Active Directory networks. These types of scans typically do not negatively affect network performance, but attackers can leverage this information to find new targets in an attack campaign.
Kill Chain

$object sent a request that matches with a PingCastle scan. PingCastle enumerates Microsoft Active Directory (AD) information over protocols such as SMB or MS-RPC. Check if PingCastle is authorized in your environment.
PingCastle is a tool for assessing the security posture of Active Directory (AD) environments. PingCastle is considered to be dual-use software, which is easy to acquire and can be leveraged for both legitimate and malicious activity. Attackers can run PingCastle to enumerate AD information, such as usernames, group policies, and more. For example, PingCastle enumerates group policy objects (GPOs) by sending an SMB request to a device.
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