Gather Victim Identity Information T1589

Tactic: Reconnaissance

Adversaries may gather information about the victim's identity that can be used during targeting. Information about identities may include a variety of details, including personal data (ex: employee names, email addresses, security question responses, etc.) as well as sensitive details such as credentials or multi-factor authentication (MFA) configurations.

Events covered

4 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

Authoring guide

These 9 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.

Fields filtered most (13 distinct)

These fields appear most often in rule filters.

FieldRulesHowSample values
EventID2eq 24768, 7
Status2eq 20x6, 200
ImageLoaded1ends_with 1*\samcli.dll, *\samlib.dll
OriginalFileName1eq 1SAMCLI.DLL, samlib.dll
ScriptBlockText1match 1-LDAPFilter*(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=524288), -Properties*PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount, -Properties*TrustedForDelegation
TargetFilename1in 1*.backup_ld.so, *.boot.sh, *.logpam
TargetUserName1ne 1*$
UriPath1contains 1/api/users/activity
aws::userAgent1starts_with 1aws-cli
azure_ad::risk_event_types1eq 1leakedCredentials
id.applicationName1eq 1login
isOutlier1eq 11
name1eq 1gov_attack_warning

Top indicator values (34 distinct)

These values appear most often in rule predicates.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
EventIDeq
4768
111
EventIDeq
7
139
ImageLoadedends_with
*\samcli.dll
12
ImageLoadedends_with
*\samlib.dll
12
OriginalFileNameeq
SAMCLI.DLL
1
OriginalFileNameeq
samlib.dll
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
-LDAPFilter*(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=524288)
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
-Properties*PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
-Properties*TrustedForDelegation
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
-Properties*TrustedToAuthForDelegation
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
-Properties*msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo
1
Statuseq
0x6
15
Statuseq
200
12
TargetFilenamein
*.backup_ld.so
1
TargetFilenamein
*.boot.sh
1
TargetFilenamein
*.logpam
1
TargetFilenamein
*/lib/libdsx.so
1
TargetFilenamein
*/lib/libseconf
1
TargetFilenamein
*/lib/libseconf/.pts
1
TargetFilenamein
*/lib/libseconf/local.txt
1
TargetFilenamein
*/lib/locate /.pts
1
TargetFilenamein
*/lib/locate/local.txt
1
TargetFilenamein
*/libseconf/.ports
1
TargetFilenamein
*/var/log/remote.txt
1
TargetFilenamein
*rkload
1
TargetFilenamein
*sshpass.txt
1
TargetFilenamein
*sshpass2.txt
1
TargetUserNamene
*$
114
UriPathcontains
/api/users/activity
1
aws::userAgentstarts_with
aws-cli
1

Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Sigma 3 rules

Splunk 3 rules

Kusto 2 rules

Panther 1 rule