Credential Access / T1558
Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets
Technique / Enterprise ATT&CK
Official MITRE entryAdversaries may attempt to subvert Kerberos authentication by stealing or forging Kerberos tickets to enable Pass the Ticket. Kerberos is an authentication protocol widely used in modern Windows domain environments. In Kerberos environments, referred to as “realms”, there are three basic participants: client, service, and Key Distribution Center (KDC).(Citation: ADSecurity Kerberos Ring Decoder) Clients request access to a service and through the exchange of Kerberos tickets, originating from KDC, they are granted access after having successfully authenticated. The KDC is responsible for both authentication and ticket granting. Adversaries may attempt to abuse Kerberos by stealing tickets or forging tickets to enable unauthorized access.
On Windows, the built-in klist utility can be used to list and analyze cached Kerberos tickets.(Citation: Microsoft Klist)
Sub-techniques
Associated tactics
Source references
- CERT-EU Golden Ticket Protection
- Microsoft Detecting Kerberoasting Feb 2018
- Medium Detecting Attempts to Steal Passwords from Memory
- Stealthbits Detect PtT 2019
- AdSecurity Cracking Kerberos Dec 2015
- ADSecurity Detecting Forged Tickets
- Microsoft Kerberos Golden Ticket
- Microsoft Klist
- ADSecurity Kerberos Ring Decoder