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Certified Pre-Owned - TGTs requested with certificate authentication
Description
This query identifies someone using machine certificates to request Kerberos Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs).
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let timeframe=1h;
SecurityEvent
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(timeframe)
| where EventID == 4768
| project TimeGenerated, Computer, TargetAccount, EventData=parse_xml(EventData)
| mv-apply d=EventData.EventData.Data on
(
where d["@Name"]=="CertIssuerName"
| project CIN=tostring(d["#text"])
)
| where not(isempty(CIN))
// <DECISION - 1>
// In some environments, we see a lot of certs starting with a sid and containing live.com. Comment out the next line if you have that as well.
//| where not(CIN startswith "S-1-")
// <DECISION - 2>
// If you're seeing a significant number of machine accounts, it might be due to 802.1X or SCCM. https://twitter.com/MagnusMOD/status/1407800853088591872?s=20.
// The following line allows you to filter out all endpoints. This does introduce a blindspot, and you need a custom function which provides data about (on-prem) AD machines.
// Alternatively, you can use DeviceInfo, if you're ingesting that data from MDE.
| parse CIN with "CN=" MachineName
//| join kind=leftouter MyCustomLookupFunction on $left.MachineName == $right.CN
//| where not(OperatingSystem startswith "Windows 10")
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
b838a13c-052e-45b8-a5ac-7d3eb62efa11
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC