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Conti – Rubeus Kerberos Abuse Followed by PsExec Lateral Movement

Conti Lateral Movement Sentinel
MITRE ATT&CK
SMB/Windows Admin Shares
Data Source
DeviceProcessEvents
Date Added
2026-07-23
Last Updated
2026-07-23
Source
ransomware.live group_tools dataset (conti)
What This Detects
Conti's playbook chains Rubeus (ticket requests/Kerberoasting) with PsExec-based lateral movement over SMB admin shares within a few hours, after AdFind/BloodHound recon.
Query
let rubeus = DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(1d)
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("Rubeus","kerberoast","asktgt","s4u")
| project DeviceName, RubeusTime = Timestamp, AccountName;
let psexec = DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(1d)
| where FileName in~ ("psexesvc.exe","psexec.exe")
| project DeviceName, PsExecTime = Timestamp;
rubeus
| join kind=inner psexec on DeviceName
| where PsExecTime - RubeusTime between (0min .. 4h)
| project DeviceName, AccountName, RubeusTime, PsExecTime

Hunting queries are starting points for threat hunting & detection engineering — validate table/column names against your own workspace schema and tune thresholds before turning any of these into a production alert rule.