Group Policy Discovery - T1615

(ATT&CK® Technique)

Definition

Adversaries may gather information on Group Policy settings to identify paths for privilege escalation, security measures applied within a domain, and to discover patterns in domain objects that can be manipulated or used to blend in the environment. Group Policy allows for centralized management of user and computer settings in Active Directory (AD). Group policy objects (GPOs) are containers for group policy settings made up of files stored within a predictable network path \<DOMAIN>\SYSVOL\<DOMAIN>\Policies\.

D3FEND Inferred Relationships

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        graph LR;

     T1615["Group Policy Discovery"] --> |reads| GroupPolicy["Group Policy"]; class T1615 OffensiveTechniqueNode;
        class GroupPolicy ArtifactNode; click GroupPolicy href "/dao/artifact/d3f:GroupPolicy";
        click T1615 href "/offensive-technique/attack/T1615/"; click GroupPolicy href "/dao/artifact/d3f:GroupPolicy";             RestoreConfiguration["Restore Configuration"] -->
          | restores | GroupPolicy["Group Policy"];

          RestoreConfiguration["Restore Configuration"] -.->
            | may-restore | T1615["Group Policy Discovery"] ;
          class RestoreConfiguration DefensiveTechniqueNode;
          class GroupPolicy ArtifactNode;
          click RestoreConfiguration href "/technique/d3f:RestoreConfiguration";

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