T1003.002 — OS Credential Dumping: Security Account Manager
Sub-technique of T1003 OS Credential Dumping
Description
Adversaries may attempt to extract credential material from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database either through in-memory techniques or through the Windows Registry where the SAM database is stored. The SAM is a database file that contains local accounts for the host, typically those found with the net user command. Enumerating the SAM database requires SYSTEM level access.
A number of tools can be used to retrieve the SAM file through in-memory techniques:
* pwdumpx.exe * gsecdump * Mimikatz * secretsdump.py
Alternatively, the SAM can be extracted from the Registry with Reg:
* reg save HKLM\sam sam
* reg save HKLM\system system
Creddump7 can then be used to process the SAM database locally to retrieve hashes.
Notes:
* RID 500 account is the local, built-in administrator. * RID 501 is the guest account. * User accounts start with a RID of 1,000+.
Detected by EasySIEM
This project's own SigmaHQ-derived detection pipeline tags every compiled rule with the ATT&CK technique(s) it maps to -- if a rule in your install covers this technique, it shows up automatically on your own Grafana Alerts dashboard's "Top ATT&CK Techniques" panel, no lookup needed. This page exists so a click from there always lands here on easysiem.com, not on attack.mitre.org.