Invocation of Active Directory Diagnostic Tool (ntdsutil.exe)

Title: Invocation of Active Directory Diagnostic Tool (ntdsutil.exe)
Status: test
Description:Detects execution of ntdsutil.exe, which can be used for various attacks against the NTDS database (NTDS.DIT)
References:
  -https://jpcertcc.github.io/ToolAnalysisResultSheet/details/ntdsutil.htm
Author: Thomas Patzke
Date: 2019-01-16
modified:2022-03-11
Tags:

• -'attack.credential-access'
• -'attack.t1003.003'

Logsource:

• category: process_creation
• product: windows

Detection:
  selection:
    Image|endswith: '\ntdsutil.exe'
  condition:selection
Falsepositives:
  -NTDS maintenance
Level: medium