Mass account password change


Description

Prior to deploying Macaw ransomware in an organization, adversaries will change the password for hundreds or thousands of accounts in order to lock users out of the network and impeded recovery efforts.

Query · kql

DeviceProcessEvents 
| where ProcessCommandLine has_all('user', '/Domain', '/Active:Yes', '/PasswordChg:No') 
| summarize commands=count() by DeviceId, bin(Timestamp, 1d)  
| where commands > 200
Raw source Mass account password change · KQL
Esc
Published by Azure/Azure-Sentinel ↗, licensed under MIT ↗. Reproduced here unmodified.
id: 4d8285d1-deac-4eb6-8cdf-267ed37ef39e
name: Mass account password change
description: |
  Prior to deploying Macaw ransomware in an organization, adversaries will change the password for hundreds or thousands of accounts in order to lock users out of the network and impeded recovery efforts.
requiredDataConnectors:
- connectorId: MicrosoftThreatProtection
  dataTypes:
  - DeviceProcessEvents
tactics:
- Ransomware
query: |
  DeviceProcessEvents 
  | where ProcessCommandLine has_all('user', '/Domain', '/Active:Yes', '/PasswordChg:No') 
  | summarize commands=count() by DeviceId, bin(Timestamp, 1d)  
  | where commands > 200 

Detection rules belong to the projects that publish them and remain under their own licenses. This site indexes and links to them; it claims no rights in them.