Account Creation

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User accounts may be created to achieve persistence on a machine. Read more here: https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1136. Tags: #CreateAccount. Query #1: Query for users being created using "net user" command. "net user" commands are noisy, so needs to be joined with another signal -. E.g. in this example we look for use of uncommon & undocumented commandline switches (e.g. /ad instead of /add).

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Microsoft Defender XDR
ID 450f4e56-5bba-4070-b9d9-9204ba9d777d
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics Persistence
Techniques T1136
Required Connectors MicrosoftThreatProtection
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
DeviceProcessEvents ?

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