Cross-source coverage
T1589.002 / ATT&CK
Gather Victim Identity Information: Email Addresses
2 rules across 2 sources.
From MITRE ATT&CK 19.2
Adversaries may gather email addresses that can be used during targeting. Even if internal instances exist, organizations may have public-facing email infrastructure and addresses for employees.
Adversaries may easily gather email addresses, since they may be readily available and exposed via online or other accessible data sets (ex: Social Media or Search Victim-Owned Websites). Email addresses could also be enumerated via more active means (i.e. Active Scanning), such as probing and analyzing responses from authentication services that may reveal valid usernames in a system. For example, adversaries may be able to enumerate email addresses in Office 365 environments by querying a variety of publicly available API endpoints, such as autodiscover and GetCredentialType.
Gathering this information may reveal opportunities for other forms of reconnaissance (ex: Search Open Websites/Domains or Phishing for Information), establishing operational resources (ex: Email Accounts), and/or initial access (ex: Phishing or Brute Force via External Remote Services).
- Tactics
- Reconnaissance
- Platforms
- PRE
- Telemetry
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Network Traffic
How MITRE says to detect it DET0814
Detection of Email Addresses
PRE Analytic 1946
Monitor for suspicious network traffic that could be indicative of probing for email addresses and/or usernames, such as large/iterative quantities of authentication requests originating from a single source (especially if the source is known to be associated with an adversary/botnet). Analyzing web metadata may also reveal artifacts that can be attributed to potentially malicious activity, such as referer or user-agent string HTTP/S fields.
Network TrafficNone
SigmaHQ/sigma
1 rule| Detection | Severity | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Potential Unconstrained Delegation Discovery Via Get-ADComputer - ScriptBlock | Medium | Sigma |
splunk/security_content
1 rule| Detection | Severity | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Kerberos User Enumeration | Undefined | SPL |