pingcastle P-AdminLogin and MSA accounts

Hi, There was a "P-AdminLogin" rule trigger for months on my AD audit, but I hadn't invetigate, mostly because no Admin users are using this account, each one of them got a personal individual account for DCs....

So, I queried the "LastLogonDate" for this account, and searched on the DC's for the 4624 Event.... but there was none for this timestamp.

But, at this precise timestamp, there was a 4769 Event "Kerberos Service Ticket Operations" (Failure code 0x0)... wich is referring to a "MSA account"...

So... in this case, could it be that the PingCastle "P-AdminLogin" rule triggers not on an "Admin account use", but on a "MSA ticket operation" which induce a new "LastLogonDate" of the Admin account.... ;-( ?

By the way, the "LastLogonDate" of the "MSA Service account", get by a "Get-ADServiceAccount" is of another day, another TimeStamp...

I'm a bit lost... ;-(

Regards

Mar 10 '22 15:03 Nioubi24

Hi,

Two days ago, same behavior : the admin account LastLogonDate 03/15 (US format) is the exact Timestamp of a 4769 "Kerberos ticket Operations" event concerning a MSA account.

Any idea ?

Regards

Mar 17 '22 08:03 Nioubi24

Hi,

Thanks for having taken into account this false positive (Cf your post on Twitter https://twitter.com/mysmartlogon/status/1539575176362426368?cxt=HHwWgIC8wejd1d0qAAAA )

The "S4u2Self" was also mentionned by another source - in march - as a suspected origin for this updated Timestamp..., and the "P-AdminLogin" rule trigger cause I encountered...

Regards

Jun 23 '22 08:06 Nioubi24