A Security Operations Center (SOC) analyst is reviewing alerts generated by a SIEM correlation rule designed to flag potential credential harvesting activity. Within a five-minute window, a standard domain user workstation generated multiple instances of the following Windows Security Event log entry:
Event ID: 4769
Task Category: Kerberos Service Ticket Operations
TargetUserName: [email protected]
Service Name: MSSQLSvc/db01.contoso.com:1433
Ticket Options: 0x40810000
Ticket Encryption Type: 0x17
Failure Code: 0x0
Client Address: ::ffff:192.168.10.115
Based on this log telemetry, which of the following security events is occurring?
- A Kerberoasting attack requesting a service ticket with weak RC4 encryption to crack the service account password offline.Cevap
- BA brute-force authentication attack attempting password combinations directly against the SQL database service port.
- CAn authorization bypass attack where a low-privileged account attempts to gain unauthorized database access privileges.
- DA SQL injection attack transmitting malicious database queries over an unvalidated web application input field.
Cevap
A Kerberoasting attack requesting a service ticket with weak RC4 encryption to crack the service account password offline.
The correct answer identifies a Kerberoasting attack. Windows Event ID 4769 logs when a Kerberos service ticket (TGS) is requested. A key indicator of Kerberoasting is a standard user requesting TGS tickets for accounts with registered Service Principal Names (SPNs) specifying weak encryption types such as RC4 (0x17). The attacker can extract the encrypted ticket payload from memory or network traffic and attempt to crack the service account's password offline.
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Kerberoasting Detection via SIEM Log Analysis
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