Detection rule
Golden Ticket detection (T1558.001)
TGT issued with RC4 encryption. GraphnAI raises an alert when it sees this in your domain controllers' security events.
How GraphnAI finds it
An OpenTelemetry collector sends the Windows Security log from your domain controllers to your GraphnAI server. GraphnAI checks each batch of events against every active rule.
This rule reads one event:
- 4768A Kerberos authentication ticket (TGT) was requested
One matching event raises the alert.
The alert shows the account's type and tier, and how many of its paths to Tier 0 are Validated.
Tiered Fidelity™ level: Validated
Telemetry saw the activity itself. The alert marks no identity in the graph, because an attacker can name the account without its credential.
- TheoreticalConfigured in the directory. Nothing else checked.
- ConstrainedA constraint on it has been checked.
- ValidatedThis alertTelemetry has seen it in use.
How you respond with Select Fire™
The alert has no Select Fire button, because the account it names is one an attacker can choose.
- Full-AutoTriage never acts on it automatically. An attacker chooses the accounts it names, so acting on one would let the attacker pick the account to lock out.
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