Analytics BIOC Informational

Administrator groups enumerated via LDAP

An LDAP search query that collects information about administrators was executed. This may be indicative of Active Directory domain enumeration, which can be used to perform attacks against the organization.

Module:
Platform Analytics
Data source:
Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)
ATT&CK tactics: Discovery (TA0007)
ATT&CK techniques: Account Discovery (T1087)
Detector tags: LDAP Analytics (Client)
Attacker's goals:

An attacker is attempting to enumerate Active Directory.

Investigative actions:

Check if the process executes LDAP search queries as part of its normal behavior. Investigate the LDAP search query for any suspicious indicators.

Test period:
N/A (single event)
Deduplication:
1 Day