T1201

Password Policy Discovery

Index entry

In-depth coverage of this technique (how it looks in telemetry, how to hunt it, and how to rule out benign activity) is coming soon. It's in our catalog and on the roadmap to be written up.

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Telemetry needed

The log events that help detect this technique, from the Telemetry reference: which log source to collect, which event in it, and how to enable each one.

AWS CloudTrail
- GetAccountPasswordPolicy
Entra ID audit logs (the log as a whole)
Linux audit framework (auditd)
- SYSCALL:execve SYSCALL record for execve
- SYSCALL:open SYSCALL record for open
- SYSCALL:openat SYSCALL record for openat
- SYSCALL:read SYSCALL record for read
syslog / journald (auth, secure, messages, cron) (the log as a whole)
Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Log (the log as a whole)
Other macOS sources (fsevents, plists, launchd, TCC, MDM) (the log as a whole)
macOS unified log (the log as a whole)
Network device logs (syslog, CLI/AAA, config, SNMP) (the log as a whole)
PowerShell logging
- 4103 Module logging (pipeline execution)
- 4104 Script block logging (script block text)
- 4105 Script block invocation started
- 4106 Script block invocation completed
Windows Security event log
- 4662 An operation was performed on an object.
Sysmon
- 1 Process creation