Most Popular Detection 2026: Golden Ticket Forged Kerberos TGT Usage

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

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This rule detects the use of forged Kerberos Ticket-Granting Tickets (Golden Tickets), which are typically generated by abusing the KRBTGT account's NTLM hash. The rule monitors Windows Event IDs 4768 and 4769 for anomalies including excessively long ticket lifetimes (common in Mimikatz outputs), evidence of tickets used post-KRBTGT reset, or tickets issued for accounts that do not exist in the environment.