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CAPEC-560

Use of Known Domain Credentials

An adversary guesses or obtains (i.e. steals or purchases) legitimate credentials (e.g. userID/password) to achieve authentication and to perform authorized actions under the guise of an authenticated user or service.

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Tipik ciddiyet

High

Saldırı ihtimali

High

Saldırıyı anla

Bu saldırı kalıbı nedir?

An adversary guesses or obtains (i.e. steals or purchases) legitimate credentials (e.g. userID/password) to achieve authentication and to perform authorized actions under the guise of an authenticated user or service.

Genişletilmiş açıklama

Attacks leveraging trusted credentials typically result in the adversary laterally moving within the local network, since users are often allowed to login to systems/applications within the network using the same password. This further allows the adversary to obtain sensitive data, download/install malware on the system, pose as a legitimate user for social engineering purposes, and more. Attacks on known passwords generally rely on the primary fact that users often reuse the same username/password combination for a variety of systems, applications, and services, coupled with poor password policies on the target system or application. Adversaries can also utilize known passwords to target Single Sign On (SSO) or cloud-based applications and services, which often don't verify the authenticity of the user's input. Known credentials are usually obtained by an adversary via a system/application breach and/or by purchasing dumps of credentials on the dark web. These credentials may be further gleaned via exposed configuration and properties files that contain system passwords, database connection strings, and other sensitive data.

Uygulama akışı

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1

Explore

Acquire known credentials

The adversary must obtain known credentials in order to access the target system, application, or service.

Kullanılan teknikler

  • An adversary purchases breached username/password combinations or leaked hashed passwords from the dark web.
  • An adversary leverages a key logger or phishing attack to steal user credentials as they are provided.
  • An adversary conducts a sniffing attack to steal credentials as they are transmitted.
  • An adversary gains access to a database and exfiltrates password hashes.
  • An adversary examines outward-facing configuration and properties files to discover hardcoded credentials.

Determine target's password policy

Determine the password policies of the target system/application to determine if the known credentials fit within the specified criteria.

Kullanılan teknikler

  • Determine minimum and maximum allowed password lengths.
  • Determine format of allowed passwords (whether they are required or allowed to contain numbers, special characters, etc., or whether they are allowed to contain words from the dictionary).
  • Determine account lockout policy (a strict account lockout policy will prevent brute force attacks if multiple passwords are known for a single user account).
2

Experiment

Attempt authentication

Try each credential until the target grants access.

Kullanılan teknikler

  • Manually or automatically enter each credential through the target's interface.
3

Exploit

Impersonate

An adversary can use successful experiments or authentications to impersonate an authorized user or system, or to laterally move within a system or application

Spoofing

Malicious data can be injected into the target system or into a victim user's system by an adversary. The adversary can also pose as a legitimate user to perform social engineering attacks.

Data Exfiltration

The adversary can obtain sensitive data contained within the system or application.

Gereksinimler

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Ön koşullar

  • The system/application uses one factor password based authentication, SSO, and/or cloud-based authentication.
  • The system/application does not have a sound password policy that is being enforced.
  • The system/application does not implement an effective password throttling mechanism.
  • The adversary possesses a list of known user accounts and corresponding passwords that may exist on the target.

Gerekli beceri

  • Low: Once an adversary obtains a known credential, leveraging it is trivial.

Gerekli kaynak

  • A list of known credentials.
  • A custom script that leverages the credential list to launch an attack.

Tespit

Saldırının göstergeleri nelerdir?

Authentication attempts use credentials that have been used previously by the account in question.
Authentication attempts are originating from IP addresses or locations that are inconsistent with the user's normal IP addresses or locations.
Data is being transferred and/or removed from systems/applications within the network.
Suspicious or Malicious software is downloaded/installed on systems within the domain.
Messages from a legitimate user appear to contain suspicious links or communications not consistent with the user's normal behavior.

Etki

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Gain Privileges

Etkilenen alanlar: Confidentiality, Access Control, Authentication

Read Data

Etkilenen alanlar: Confidentiality, Authorization

Modify Data

Etkilenen alanlar: Integrity

Savunma

Nasıl önlenir ve etkisi azaltılır?

1
Leverage multi-factor authentication for all authentication services and prior to granting an entity access to the domain network.
2
Create a strong password policy and ensure that your system enforces this policy.
3
Ensure users are not reusing username/password combinations for multiple systems, applications, or services.
4
Do not reuse local administrator account credentials across systems.
5
Deny remote use of local admin credentials to log into domain systems.
6
Do not allow accounts to be a local administrator on more than one system.
7
Implement an intelligent password throttling mechanism. Care must be taken to assure that these mechanisms do not excessively enable account lockout attacks such as CAPEC-2 .
8
Monitor system and domain logs for abnormal credential access.

Gerçek dünya

MITRE örnek olayları

Örnek olay 1Detay
Throughout 2015 and 2016, APT28 — also known as Pawn Storm, Sednit, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, and STRONTIUM — leveraged stolen credentials to infiltrate the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the United States Army, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS-CAS), and more. In most cases, the legitimate credentials were obtained via calculated spearphishing, tabnabbing, and DNS attacks targeted at corporate webmail systems. APT28 also executed several watering hole attacks, in addition to exploiting several zero-day vulnerabilities within Flash and Windows. The stolen credentials were then utilized to maintain authenticated access, laterally move within the local network, and exfiltrate sensitive information including DNC emails and personal medical records of numerous athletes. [ REF-571 ]
Örnek olay 2Detay
In early 2019, FIN6 exploited stolen credentials from an organization within the engineering industry to laterally move within an environment via the Windows’ Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Multiple servers were subsequently infected with malware to create malware distribution servers, which were used to distribute the LockerGoga ransomware. [ REF-573 ]
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