FORENSIA

ATT&CK · T1558.001 · sub-technique

Golden Ticket

Tactics: credential-access

About

Adversaries who have the KRBTGT account password hash may forge Kerberos ticket-granting tickets (TGT), also known as a golden ticket. Golden tickets enable adversaries to generate authentication material for any account in Active Directory. Using a golden ticket, adversaries are then able to request ticket granting service (TGS) tickets, which enable access to specific resources. Golden tickets require adversaries to interact with the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in order to obtain TGS. The KDC service runs all on domain controllers that are part of an Active Directory domain. KRBTGT is the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) service account and is responsible for encrypting and signing all Kerberos tickets. The KRBTGT password hash may be obtained using OS Credential Dumping and privileged access to a domain controller.

Used by actors

1 known groups

Software

4 malware/tools implement this

MimikatzEmpireSliverRubeus

Corpus indicators tagged with this technique

0 indicators in the corpus carry T1558.001.

No corpus indicators are tagged with this technique yet.