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{
  "id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006",
  "title": "Group Policy Preferences",
  "type": "Subtechnique",
  "source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1552/006",
  "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--8d7bd4f5-3a89-4453-9c82-2c8894d5655e",
  "external_id": "T1552.006",
  "domain": "enterprise",
  "created": "2020-02-11T18:43:06.253Z",
  "modified": "2026-05-12T15:12:00.705Z",
  "version": "1.1",
  "aliases": [

  ],
  "tactics": [
    "credential-access"
  ],
  "source_references": [
    {
      "source_name": "Obscuresecurity Get-GPPPassword",
      "url": "https://obscuresecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/gpp-password-retrieval-with-powershell.html"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "Microsoft GPP 2016",
      "url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/dn581922(v%3Dws.11)"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "Microsoft GPP Key",
      "url": "https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc422924.aspx"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "ADSecurity Finding Passwords in SYSVOL",
      "url": "https://adsecurity.org/?p=2288"
    }
  ]
}

Explicit source assertions (9)

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:T1552.006 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--00814703-3c3b-4872-89e9-cea4ba5edf2d

ATTACK:enterprise:S0692 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--0f43dcda-56ff-4ac2-b79a-82b09a90944f

GitHub SILENTTRINITY Modules July 2019

ATTACK:enterprise:S0194 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--3837e91f-47d5-4b30-b11b-76a91450c4ef

GitHub PowerSploit May 2012 · PowerSploit Documentation

ATTACK:enterprise:S9022 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--39d06f63-a10e-4882-91f0-7f96a6ad74e8

Trend Micro Earth Kasha NOV 2024

ATTACK:enterprise:G0064 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--3ca3a169-177b-44aa-b9c1-40e605f8edad

Symantec Elfin Mar 2019 · FireEye APT33 Guardrail

ATTACK:enterprise:M1047 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--4abb5175-7caf-41c8-83a6-1ce459cf72df

ADSecurity Finding Passwords in SYSVOL

ATTACK:enterprise:G0102 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--5c98e0bb-7451-4c61-a798-4306b89b1e61

Mandiant FIN12 Oct 2021

ATTACK:enterprise:M1051 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--92a0aa90-109d-41d7-a08a-6326480d02e6

ADSecurity Finding Passwords in SYSVOL · MS14-025

ATTACK:enterprise:M1015 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1552.006

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--b3a191f3-59be-4457-ad5c-085ea0391bfe

Microsoft MS14-025

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