Benjamin Delpy/@gentilkiwi’s Brucon workshop on Mimikatz inspired me to resume my work on detecting DCSync usage inside networks.

Here are 2 Suricata rules to detect Active Directory replication traffic between a domain controller and a domain member like a workstation (e.g. not a domain controller):

alert tcp !$DC_SERVERS any -> $DC_SERVERS any (msg:"Mimikatz DRSUAPI"; flow:established,to_server; content:"|05 00 0b|"; depth:3; content:"|35 42 51 e3 06 4b d1 11 ab 04 00 c0 4f c2 dc d2|"; depth:100; flowbits:set,drsuapi; flowbits:noalert; reference:url,blog.didierstevens.com; classtype:policy-violation; sid:1000001; rev:1;) alert tcp !$DC_SERVERS any -> $DC_SERVERS any (msg:"Mimikatz DRSUAPI DsGetNCChanges Request"; flow:established,to_server; flowbits:isset,drsuapi; content:"|05 00 00|"; depth:3; content:"|00 03|"; offset:22 depth:2; reference:url,blog.didierstevens.com; classtype:policy-violation; sid:1000002; rev:1;)

Variable DC_SERVERS should be set to the IP addresses of the domain controllers.

The first rule will set a flowbit (drsuapi) when DCE/RPC traffic is detected to bind to the directory replication interface (DRSUAPI).

The second rule will detect a DCE/RPC DsGetNCChanges request if the flowbit drsuapi is set.

These rules were tested in a test environment with normal traffic between a workstation and a domain controller, and with Mimikatz DCSync traffic. They were not tested in a production network.

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