Cached Domain Credentials
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005",
"title": "Cached Domain Credentials",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/005",
"snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
"status": "active",
"rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
"review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
"stix_id": "attack-pattern--6add2ab5-2711-4e9d-87c8-7a0be8531530",
"external_id": "T1003.005",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-02-21T15:42:25.991Z",
"modified": "2025-10-24T17:48:54.919Z",
"version": "1.1",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"credential-access"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "PassLib mscache",
"url": "https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lib/passlib.hash.msdcc2.html"
},
{
"source_name": "ired mscache",
"url": "https://ired.team/offensive-security/credential-access-and-credential-dumping/dumping-and-cracking-mscash-cached-domain-credentials"
},
{
"source_name": "Microsoft - Cached Creds",
"url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/hh994565(v%3Dws.11)"
},
{
"source_name": "Powersploit",
"url": "https://github.com/mattifestation/PowerSploit"
},
{
"source_name": "Brining MimiKatz to Unix",
"url": "https://labs.portcullis.co.uk/download/eu-18-Wadhwa-Brown-Where-2-worlds-collide-Bringing-Mimikatz-et-al-to-UNIX.pdf"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (15)
First 80 shown here; the complete set is in this record’s JSON and plaintext. Each relationship retains its source and locator. No inferred relationships are added.
ATTACK:enterprise:S0439 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--060d2cd5-a734-4c78-908c-a9ddabe3aa89
ESET Okrum July 2019ATTACK:enterprise:G0064 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--176244be-553b-48ac-8e38-9b006d6c360e
Symantec Elfin Mar 2019 · FireEye APT33 GuardrailATTACK:enterprise:G0077 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--59a6ccad-02c1-4794-ac65-4d01c8ca7a3f
Symantec Leafminer July 2018ATTACK:enterprise:S0119 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--5c6b3fda-2eec-4c7a-af09-5f880f260085
Mandiant APT1ATTACK:enterprise:M1015 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--6c1da818-6e35-4fa8-ad40-e45c2c90e016
Microsoft Protected Users Security GroupATTACK:enterprise:M1017 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--7a5b9104-1fa8-4c55-9e03-f2faa3d2a6f7
ATTACK:enterprise:M1027 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--7b96aae7-0234-496c-abb5-6d9600041d7b
ATTACK:enterprise:S0349 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--9399157f-4443-447f-b2e1-2227582af6e6
GitHub LaZagne Dec 2018ATTACK:enterprise:C0064 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--9ccb760c-e9b3-4591-a4db-6456d8fa0d88
AI-Mexico-Govt-BreachATTACK:enterprise:M1028 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a1ee7b5a-94cd-4b3a-aa53-55844968c28f
Tilbury Windows CredentialsATTACK:enterprise:M1026 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--b9ef32ed-bec0-4f2a-863c-5c8400d9a970
ATTACK:enterprise:G0049 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--cd95d72d-033c-4881-b233-70983106cbfa
FireEye APT34 July 2019 · FireEye APT34 Webinar Dec 2017 · FireEye APT35 2018 · Unit42 OilRig Playbook 2023ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--d5afd2ff-ca7f-4a53-b2ca-1628fda6f74d
ATTACK:enterprise:S0192 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--d8707d98-c6f1-4d16-956a-df9a6862b7fa
GitHub PupyATTACK:enterprise:G0069 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1003.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--fc857925-ff28-49f9-ba76-7ec2d29ba939
Unit 42 MuddyWater Nov 2017 · Symantec MuddyWater Dec 2018