Veritas
F026MEDIUMSuspiciousvalidator: passed

Explicit credential usage by SYSTEM account (TA0008: Lateral Movement)

Event 4648 SYSTEM credential usage

Analyst narrative

Security event logs (EventID 4648) document SYSTEM account (S-1-5-18) performing explicit credential logons targeting remote systems DMZ-FTP$ with service principal names. Multiple instances across 6-month span indicate persistent lateral movement infrastructure.

Claims asserted

event_logEventID 4648 SYSTEM lateral movementparse_event_logs

Proof chain · 0 facts

Every confirmed claim links by foreign key to the typed fact that validated it, and to the forensic tool that produced that fact. This is one finding_trace() query.

Source tools

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