Analytics BIOC Informational
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Local group enumeration via RPC

A user enumerated local groups via RPC.

Module:
Platform Analytics
Data source:
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:
N/A (single event)
Deduplication:
1 Day
1 variation:
  • Remote local group enumeration via RPC Informational