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hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks

Hunts for Kerberoasting and related ticket attacks by analyzing Kerberos service ticket request events (4769) for weak encryption types, abnormal request volume per account, and non-machine accounts requesting many SPNs. Activates for requests to hunt Kerberoasting, detect RC4 ticket requests, or find SPN-targeting credential attacks.

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Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.

Hunting Kerberoasting and Ticket Attacks

When to Use

  • You have Kerberos service ticket request events (Event ID 4769) and want to detect Kerberoasting (bulk TGS requests with crackable RC4 encryption against service accounts).
  • You are investigating AD credential-access activity.

Do not use this for AS-REP roasting (4768 with preauth disabled) — that is a related but separate hunt; this focuses on 4769 TGS requests.

Prerequisites

  • Event ID 4769 records with account name, service name (SPN), ticket encryption type, and client address.

Workflow

Step 1: Flag weak-encryption ticket requests

python scripts/analyst.py hunt 4769_events.csv

Flags tickets with encryption type 0x17 (RC4-HMAC) — the crackable type Kerberoasting prefers — and computes per-account SPN request volume.

Step 2: Detect bulk SPN targeting

Surface accounts requesting tickets for many distinct SPNs in a short window (a single user enumerating service accounts).

Step 3: Confirm

Correlate with the requesting host and whether the account legitimately needs those services.

Step 4: Operationalize

Write a detection for RC4 4769 requests from non-machine accounts above a volume threshold.

Validation

  • RC4 (0x17) requests are distinguished from AES (0x11/0x12).
  • Per-account distinct-SPN counts identify bulk targeting.
  • Findings map to ATT&CK T1558.003.

Pitfalls

  • Legacy applications legitimately using RC4 — baseline before alerting.
  • Failure code 0x0 (success) only; some logs include failures that skew counts.
  • Service accounts with many SPNs producing benign volume — combine with encryption-type weakness.

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