FORENSIA

ATT&CK · T1134.003 · sub-technique

Make and Impersonate Token

Tactics: stealth, privilege-escalation

About

Adversaries may make new tokens and impersonate users to escalate privileges and bypass access controls. For example, if an adversary has a username and password but the user is not logged onto the system the adversary can then create a logon session for the user using the `LogonUser` function. The function will return a copy of the new session's access token and the adversary can use `SetThreadToken` to assign the token to a thread. This behavior is distinct from Token Impersonation/Theft in that this refers to creating a new user token instead of stealing or duplicating an existing one.

Used by actors

2 known groups

Software

3 malware/tools implement this

Cobalt StrikeSILENTTRINITYMafalda

Corpus indicators tagged with this technique

11 indicators in the corpus carry T1134.003.