Discovery of misconfigured certificate templates using LDAP

Synopsis

Field	Value
Activation Period	14 Days
Training Period	30 Days
Test Period	N/A (single event)
Deduplication Period	1 Day
Required Data	XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)
Detector Tags	LDAP Analytics (Client), LDAP Analytics (Server), Active Directory Certificate Services Analytics
ATT&CK Tactic	Discovery (TA0007)
ATT&CK Technique	File and Directory Discovery (T1083)
Severity	Medium

Description

An LDAP query searching for misconfigured certificate templates was executed.

Attacker's Goals

An attacker can use misconfigured certificate templates for escalation and authentication.

Investigative actions

• Check if the LDAP search query was allowed for the user (logged on at event time) or process.
• Investigate the LDAP search query for any suspicious indicators.

Variations

Frequent LDAP discovery of misconfigured certificate templates by a common process

Synopsis

Field	Value
ATT&CK Tactic	Discovery (TA0007)
ATT&CK Technique	File and Directory Discovery (T1083)
Severity	Low

Description

An LDAP query searching for misconfigured certificate templates was executed regularly by a common process.

Attacker's Goals

An attacker can use misconfigured certificate templates for escalation and authentication.

Investigative actions

• Check if the LDAP search query was allowed for the user (logged on at event time) or process.
• Investigate the LDAP search query for any suspicious indicators.