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T1110.001 Password Guessing

credential access — Containers, ESXi, IaaS, Identity Provider, Linux, macOS, Network Devices, Office Suite, SaaS, Windows · attack.mitre.org · JSON

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KEV CVEs mapped here
<p>Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts. Without knowledge of the password for an account, an adversary may opt to systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism. An adversary may guess login credentials without prior knowledge of system or environment passwords during an operation by using a list of common passwords. Password guessing may or may not take into account the target's policies on password complexity or use policies that may lock accounts out after a number of failed attempts.</p><p>Guessing passwords can be a risky option because it could cause numerous authentication failures and account lockouts, depending on the organization's login failure policies.</p><p>Typically, management services over commonly used ports are used when guessing passwords. Commonly targeted services include the following:</p>
    <li>SSH (22/TCP)</li><li>Telnet (23/TCP)</li><li>FTP (21/TCP)</li><li>NetBIOS / SMB / Samba (139/TCP & 445/TCP)</li><li>LDAP (389/TCP)</li><li>Kerberos (88/TCP)</li><li>RDP / Terminal Services (3389/TCP)</li><li>HTTP/HTTP Management Services (80/TCP & 443/TCP)</li><li>MSSQL (1433/TCP)</li><li>Oracle (1521/TCP)</li><li>MySQL (3306/TCP)</li><li>VNC (5900/TCP)</li><li>SNMP (161/UDP and 162/TCP/UDP)</li>
<p>In addition to management services, adversaries may "target single sign-on (SSO) and cloud-based applications utilizing federated authentication protocols," as well as externally facing email applications, such as Office 365.. Further, adversaries may abuse network device interfaces (such as wlanAPI) to brute force accessible wifi-router(s) via wireless authentication protocols.</p><p>In default environments, LDAP and Kerberos connection attempts are less likely to trigger events over SMB, which creates Windows "logon failure" event ID 4625.</p>

KEV CVEs mapped to this technique · CTID Mappings Explorer

None. No KEV entry in the public mapping names this technique. Given that 74.7% of KEV has no mapping at all, this says more about the mapping than about the technique.

Detection strategy · ATT&CK Enterprise v19.2

Sigma rules · SigmaHQ da9bb07d64, tag attack.t1110.001

Suspicious Connection to Remote Account lowtest
Author: frack113 · 2021-12-27 · logsource: product=windows category=ps_script · 1883444f-084b-419b-ac62-e0d0c5b3693f
Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts. Without knowledge of the password for an account, an adversary may opt to systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism
Techniques: T1110.001
Suspicious Rejected SMB Guest Logon From IP mediumtest
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), KevTheHermit, fuzzyf10w · 2021-06-30 (modified 2023-01-02) · logsource: product=windows service=smbclient-security · 71886b70-d7b4-4dbf-acce-87d2ca135262
Detect Attempt PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675) Remote code execution in Windows Spooler Service
Techniques: T1110.001
HackTool - Hydra Password Bruteforce Execution hightest
Author: Vasiliy Burov · 2020-10-05 (modified 2023-02-04) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · aaafa146-074c-11eb-adc1-0242ac120002
Detects command line parameters used by Hydra password guessing hack tool
Techniques: T1110T1110.001

Rules tagged at the parent level (attack.t1110) 25

These target the parent technique, not this sub-technique specifically. Listed for completeness, not counted as coverage.

MSSQL Server Failed Logon lowtest
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), j4son · 2023-10-11 (modified 2024-06-26) · logsource: product=windows service=application · 218d2855-2bba-4f61-9c85-81d0ea63ac71
Detects failed logon attempts from clients to MSSQL server.
Techniques: T1110
External Remote RDP Logon from Public IP mediumtest
Author: Micah Babinski (@micahbabinski), Zach Mathis (@yamatosecurity) · 2023-01-19 (modified 2024-03-11) · logsource: product=windows service=security · 259a9cdf-c4dd-4fa2-b243-2269e5ab18a2
Detects successful logon from public IP address via RDP. This can indicate a publicly-exposed RDP port.
Techniques: T1133T1078T1110
Failed Authentications From Countries You Do Not Operate Out Of lowtest
Author: MikeDuddington, '@dudders1' · 2022-07-28 · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · 28870ae4-6a13-4616-bd1a-235a7fad7458
Detect failed authentications from countries you do not operate out of.
Techniques: T1078.004T1110
Password Spray Activity hightest
Author: Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo' · 2023-09-03 · logsource: product=azure service=riskdetection · 28ecba0a-c743-4690-ad29-9a8f6f25a6f9
Indicates that a password spray attack has been successfully performed.
Techniques: T1110
Account Lockout mediumtest
Author: AlertIQ · 2021-10-10 (modified 2022-12-25) · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · 2b7d6fc0-71ac-4cf7-8ed1-b5788ee5257a
Identifies user account which has been locked because the user tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect user ID or password.
Techniques: T1110
HackTool - CrackMapExec Execution hightest
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) · 2022-02-25 (modified 2023-03-08) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 42a993dd-bb3e-48c8-b372-4d6684c4106c
This rule detect common flag combinations used by CrackMapExec in order to detect its use even if the binary has been replaced.
Techniques: T1047T1053T1059.003T1059.001T1110T1201
Cisco LDP Authentication Failures lowtest
Author: Tim Brown · 2023-01-09 · logsource: product=cisco service=ldp · 50e606bf-04ce-4ca7-9d54-3449494bbd4b
Detects LDP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate MPLS labels
Techniques: T1078T1110T1557
Potential MFA Bypass Using Legacy Client Authentication hightest
Author: Harjot Singh, '@cyb3rjy0t' · 2023-03-20 · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · 53bb4f7f-48a8-4475-ac30-5a82ddfdf6fc
Detects successful authentication from potential clients using legacy authentication via user agent strings. This could be a sign of MFA bypass using a password spray attack.
Techniques: T1078.004T1110
Multifactor Authentication Interrupted mediumtest
Author: AlertIQ · 2021-10-10 (modified 2022-12-18) · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · 5496ff55-42ec-4369-81cb-00f417029e25
Identifies user login with multifactor authentication failures, which might be an indication an attacker has the password for the account but can't pass the MFA challenge.
Techniques: T1078.004T1110T1621
Cisco BGP Authentication Failures lowtest
Author: Tim Brown · 2023-01-09 (modified 2023-01-23) · logsource: product=cisco service=bgp · 56fa3cd6-f8d6-4520-a8c7-607292971886
Detects BGP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate routing
Techniques: T1078T1110T1557
Use of Legacy Authentication Protocols hightest
Author: Yochana Henderson, '@Yochana-H' · 2022-06-17 · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · 60f6535a-760f-42a9-be3f-c9a0a025906e
Alert on when legacy authentication has been used on an account
Techniques: T1078.004T1110
AWS ConsoleLogin Failed Authentication mediumexperimental
Author: Ivan Saakov, Nasreddine Bencherchali · 2025-10-19 · logsource: product=aws service=cloudtrail · 6393e346-1977-46ef-8987-ad414a145fad
Detects failed AWS console login attempts due to authentication failures. Monitoring these events is crucial for identifying potential brute-force attacks or unauthorized access attempts to AWS accounts.
Techniques: T1110
Bitbucket User Login Failure mediumtest
Author: Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf) · 2024-02-25 · logsource: product=bitbucket service=audit · 70ed1d26-0050-4b38-a599-92c53d57d45a
Detects user authentication failure events. Please note that this rule can be noisy and it is recommended to use with correlation based on "author.name" field.
Techniques: T1078.004T1110
External Remote SMB Logon from Public IP hightest
Author: Micah Babinski (@micahbabinski), Zach Mathis (@yamatosecurity) · 2023-01-19 (modified 2024-03-11) · logsource: product=windows service=security · 78d5cab4-557e-454f-9fb9-a222bd0d5edc
Detects successful logon from public IP address via SMB. This can indicate a publicly-exposed SMB port.
Techniques: T1133T1078T1110
Successful Authentications From Countries You Do Not Operate Out Of mediumtest
Author: MikeDuddington, '@dudders1' · 2022-07-28 (modified 2026-05-08) · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · 8c944ecb-6970-4541-8496-be554b8e2846
Detect successful authentications from countries you do not operate out of.
Techniques: T1078.004T1110
User Access Blocked by Azure Conditional Access mediumtest
Author: AlertIQ · 2021-10-10 (modified 2022-12-25) · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · 9a60e676-26ac-44c3-814b-0c2a8b977adf
Detect access has been blocked by Conditional Access policies. The access policy does not allow token issuance which might be sights≈ of unauthorizeed login to valid accounts.
Techniques: T1110T1078.004
NTLM Brute Force mediumtest
Author: Jerry Shockley '@jsh0x' · 2022-02-02 · logsource: product=windows service=ntlm · 9c8acf1a-cbf9-4db6-b63c-74baabe03e59
Detects common NTLM brute force device names
Techniques: T1110
Huawei BGP Authentication Failures lowtest
Author: Tim Brown · 2023-01-09 (modified 2023-01-23) · logsource: product=huawei service=bgp · a557ffe6-ac54-43d2-ae69-158027082350
Detects BGP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate routing.
Techniques: T1078T1110T1557
Juniper BGP Missing MD5 lowtest
Author: Tim Brown · 2023-01-09 (modified 2023-01-23) · logsource: product=juniper service=bgp · a7c0ae48-8df8-42bf-91bd-2ea57e2f9d43
Detects juniper BGP missing MD5 digest. Which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate routing.
Techniques: T1078T1110T1557
HackTool - Hydra Password Bruteforce Execution hightest
Author: Vasiliy Burov · 2020-10-05 (modified 2023-02-04) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · aaafa146-074c-11eb-adc1-0242ac120002
Detects command line parameters used by Hydra password guessing hack tool
Techniques: T1110T1110.001
Sign-in Failure Due to Conditional Access Requirements Not Met hightest
Author: Yochana Henderson, '@Yochana-H' · 2022-06-01 · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · b4a6d707-9430-4f5f-af68-0337f52d5c42
Define a baseline threshold for failed sign-ins due to Conditional Access failures
Techniques: T1110T1078.004
Hack Tool User Agent hightest
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) · 2017-07-08 (modified 2022-07-07) · logsource: category=proxy · c42a3073-30fb-48ae-8c99-c23ada84b103
Detects suspicious user agent strings user by hack tools in proxy logs
Techniques: T1190T1110
Bitbucket User Login Failure Via SSH mediumtest
Author: Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf) · 2024-02-25 · logsource: product=bitbucket service=audit · d3f90469-fb05-42ce-b67d-0fded91bbef3
Detects SSH user login access failures. Please note that this rule can be noisy and is recommended to use with correlation based on "author.name" field.
Techniques: T1021.004T1110
Multifactor Authentication Denied mediumtest
Author: AlertIQ · 2022-03-24 · logsource: product=azure service=signinlogs · e40f4962-b02b-4192-9bfe-245f7ece1f99
User has indicated they haven't instigated the MFA prompt and could indicate an attacker has the password for the account.
Techniques: T1078.004T1110T1621
MSSQL Server Failed Logon From External Network mediumtest
Author: j4son · 2023-10-11 (modified 2025-05-28) · logsource: product=windows service=application · ebfe73c2-5bc9-4ed9-aaa8-8b54b2b4777d
Detects failed logon attempts from clients with external network IP to an MSSQL server. This can be a sign of a bruteforce attack.
Techniques: T1110