Sigma rule: Potential Password Spraying Attempt Using Dsacls.EXE
A detection rule from the SigmaHQ repository, shown as its author published it. Dataset version ref-5b11bf44d8dd, updated 2023-02-04T00:00:00.000Z.
Rule
- Title
- Potential Password Spraying Attempt Using Dsacls.EXE
- Status
- test
- Level
- medium
- Author
- Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Date
- 2022-06-20
- Modified
- 2023-02-04
- File
- rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_dsacls_password_spray.yml
- Commit
- ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84
Detects possible password spraying attempts using Dsacls
Log source
- product
- windows
- category
- process_creation
Detection
selection_img:
- Image|endswith: '\dsacls.exe'
- OriginalFileName: "DSACLS.EXE"
selection_cli:
CommandLine|contains|all:
- '/user:'
- '/passwd:'
condition: all of selection*False positives (as the rule lists them)
- Legitimate use of dsacls to bind to an LDAP session
Tags
- attack.stealth
- attack.t1218
MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names
References
- https://www.ired.team/offensive-security-experiments/active-directory-kerberos-abuse/using-dsacls-to-check-ad-object-permissions#password-spraying-anyone
- https://ss64.com/nt/dsacls.html
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc771151(v=ws.11)
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Sources and licences
SigmaHQ
"Potential Password Spraying Attempt Using Dsacls.EXE" by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) (SigmaHQ). Rule: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_dsacls_password_spray.yml.
Licensed under the Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/Detection-Rule-License
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Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "Sigma rule: Potential Password Spraying Attempt Using Dsacls.EXE",
entity page, dataset version ref-5b11bf44d8dd, updated 2023-02-04T00:00:00.000Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/detections/sigma/bac9fb54-2da7-44e9-988f-11e9a5edbc0c (accessed 2026-11-04).
Underlying source: SigmaHQ rule bac9fb54-2da7-44e9-988f-11e9a5edbc0c, commit ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84.
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