CAPEC-575: Account Footprinting
An adversary exploits functionality meant to identify information about the domain accounts and their permissions on the target system to an authorized user. By knowing what accounts are registered on the target system, the adversary can inform further and more targeted malicious behavior. Example Windows commands which can acquire this information are: "net user" and "dsquery".
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Overview
CAPEC-575 (Account Footprinting) is a standard-level attack pattern catalogued by MITRE in the Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC). It describes a recurring method attackers use to exploit software weaknesses.
What the attacker needs
Prerequisites
- The adversary must have gained access to the target system via physical or logical means in order to carry out this attack.
Consequences
What a successful CAPEC-575 attack can achieve.
Other
Affects: Confidentiality
Bypass Protection Mechanism, Hide Activities
Affects: Confidentiality, Access Control, Authorization
How to mitigate it
Defenses that reduce the risk of CAPEC-575.
- Identify programs that may be used to acquire account information and block them by using a software restriction policy or tools that restrict program execution by uysing a process allowlist.