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Attack Patterns CAPEC-645 — Use of Captured Tickets (Pass The Ticket)
CAPEC-645

Use of Captured Tickets (Pass The Ticket)

TLP:CLEAR

Description

Typical severity: High. Likelihood of attack: Low. An adversary uses stolen Kerberos tickets to access systems/resources that leverage the Kerberos authentication protocol. The Kerberos authentication protocol centers around a ticketing system which is used to request/grant access to services and to then access the requested services. An adversary can obtain any one of these tickets (e.g. Service Ticket, Ticket Granting Ticket, Silver Ticket, or Golden Ticket) to authenticate to a system/resource without needing the account's credentials. Depending on the ticket obtained, the adversary may be able to access a particular resource or generate TGTs for any account within an Active Directory Domain.

Mitigation

Reset the built-in KRBTGT account password twice to invalidate the existence of any current Golden Tickets and any tickets derived from them. | Monitor system and domain logs for abnormal access.

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Jul 14, 2026
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