Renamed Account Renamed to Admin (or Likely) Account to Evade Defense (via security)

Analysis Detection

ATT&CK techniques

Initial Access → Defense Evasion

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
- T1078.002Domain Accounts
Execution
Persistence
- T1078.002Domain Accounts
Priv Esc
- T1078.002Domain Accounts
Defense Evasion
- T1078.002Domain Accounts
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects rename a non admin account in order to evade SOC & operations vigilance.

Reporting behind it

attack.mitre.orghttps://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1078/002/

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Renamed Account Renamed to Admin (or Likely) Account to Evade Defense (via security)

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