- Tactics
- Credential Access
- Platforms
- Windows
- Reference
- attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1552.002
Description
Adversaries may search the Registry on compromised systems for insecurely stored credentials. The Windows Registry stores configuration information that can be used by the system or other programs. Adversaries may query the Registry looking for credentials and passwords that have been stored for use by other programs or services. Sometimes these credentials are used for automatic logons.
Example commands to find Registry keys related to password information: (Citation: Pentestlab Stored Credentials)
- Local Machine Hive:
reg query HKLM /f password /t REG_SZ /s - Current User Hive:
reg query HKCU /f password /t REG_SZ /s
How GTK Cyber trains on this
GTK Cyber's Threat Hunting with Data Science course teaches you to build machine-learning detections for techniques like this across the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including the Credential Access tactic this technique falls under. Practitioner-led, focused on real detections, not memorizing technique IDs.
Related techniques
- T1003 - OS Credential Dumping
- T1040 - Network Sniffing
- T1056 - Input Capture
- T1110 - Brute Force
- T1111 - Multi-Factor Authentication Interception
- T1187 - Forced Authentication
- T1212 - Exploitation for Credential Access
- T1528 - Steal Application Access Token
- T1539 - Steal Web Session Cookie
- T1552 - Unsecured Credentials
- T1555 - Credentials from Password Stores
- T1556 - Modify Authentication Process