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Suspicious ADFind Active Directory Reconnaissance Execution

PremiumReviewedSigma · Medium · v1
Product
windows
Category
process_creation
Author
HuntRule
Published
2026-10-05
Updated
2026-10-05
AnalysisDetection

ATT&CK techniques

Discovery

  1. Recon

  2. Resource Dev

  3. Initial Access

  4. Execution

  5. Persistence

  6. Priv Esc

  7. Defense Evasion

  8. Cred Access

  9. Discovery

  10. Lateral Movement

  11. Collection

  12. C2

  13. Exfiltration

  14. Impact

What it detects

This rule detects execution of the ADFind reconnaissance tool used in the post-exploitation toolkit deployed by the Bumblebee loader alongside Seatbelt and Procdump. Operators run ADFind to enumerate users, groups and computers across the domain before lateral movement. Presence of this tooling indicates active hands-on-keyboard discovery.

Reporting behind it

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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.