
title: Invocation of Active Directory Diagnostic Tool (ntdsutil.exe)
author: Thomas Patzke
date: 2019/01/16
description: Detects execution of ntdsutil.exe, which can be used for various attacks
  against the NTDS database (NTDS.DIT)
detection:
  SELECTION_1:
    EventID: 1
  SELECTION_2:
    Image: '*\ntdsutil.exe'
  condition: (SELECTION_1 and SELECTION_2)
falsepositives:
- NTDS maintenance
id: 2afafd61-6aae-4df4-baed-139fa1f4c345
level: medium
logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: windows
modified: 2020/11/28
references:
- https://jpcertcc.github.io/ToolAnalysisResultSheet/details/ntdsutil.htm
status: experimental
tags:
- attack.credential_access
- attack.t1003.003
- attack.t1003
ruletype: SIGMA
