Kerberoasting Attack Detection

Ankit Mehta@Secvyn

•updated Jun 30, 2026•0•0•4

This rule detects potential Kerberoasting attacks by identifying a high number of Kerberos Ticket-Granting Service (TGS) requests (EventID 4769) for Service Principal Names (SPNs) that are encrypted with RC4 (indicated by TicketOptions containing '0x40810000'). A threshold of 15 or more TGS requests from a single IP address for a target user is used to flag suspicious activity.