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T1003.005 · Cached Domain Credentials

🎯 Credential Access WindowsLinux Sub-technique

Sub-technique of T1003 · OS Credential Dumping.

Adversaries may attempt to access cached domain credentials used to allow authentication to occur in the event a domain controller is unavailable.(Citation: Microsoft - Cached Creds) On Windows Vista and newer, the hash format is DCC2 (Domain Cached Credentials version 2) hash, also known as MS-Cac...

How to detect & mitigate it

Detecting Cached Domain Credentials starts with your SIEM/EDR telemetry. Write a detection rule with the Sigma generator, analyze suspicious logs in the log analyzer, and place the technique on your coverage with the ATT&CK matrix.

Related techniques

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