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  • Local user enumeration via SAMR Informational 1 variation

    A user enumerated local users via SAMR.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    N/A (single event)
    Deduplication:
    1 Day
    ATT&CK tactics: Discovery (TA0007)
    ATT&CK techniques: Account Discovery: Local Account (T1087.001)
    Required data: XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)
    Attacker's goals: An adversary may leverage local user discovery to identify privileged users and escalate privileges.
    Investigative actions: Determine the user, hostname, and process that performed the user enumeration. Inspect process, command-line arguments or scripts used. Check for any privilege escalation or lateral movement attempts from the source system. Check if the tool used to enumerate the local users is a known or an approved tool. Review the logs for suspicious activity from the same host or user.

    Variations

    Local user enumeration via SAMR on an internet facing server

    Low overridden

    A user enumerated local users via SAMR. overridden