Local group enumeration

Analytics Informational

Local group enumeration

A user performed an enumeration on local groups to retrieve their details.

Module:: Identity Analytics
Data source:: Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)

ATT&CK tactics: Discovery (TA0007)

ATT&CK techniques: Permission Groups Discovery: Local Groups (T1069.001) Permission Groups Discovery (T1069)

Attacker's goals:

An adversary may leverage local groups discovery to identify privileged groups and escalate privileges.

Investigative actions:

Determine the user, hostname, and process that performed the group 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 groups is a known or an approved tool. Review the logs for suspicious activity from the same host or user.

Test period:: 5 Minutes
Deduplication:: 1 Day

2 variations:

Local group enumeration for the first time Low (parent: Informational)
Local group enumeration using a builtin Windows binary Informational