Sponsored by Hudson Rock – Use Hudson Rock's free cybercrime intelligence tools to learn how Infostealer infections are leading to ransomware attacks

Enjoying ransomware.live? Help us keep tracking ransomware gangs and shipping new features. Support us

BianLian – PingCastle/SharpShares Active Directory Assessment Abuse

Bianlian Discovery Sentinel
MITRE ATT&CK
Domain Trust Discovery
Data Source
DeviceProcessEvents
Date Added
2026-07-23
Last Updated
2026-07-23
Source
ransomware.live group_tools dataset (bianlian)
What This Detects
Separately from its RDP Recognizer credential-validation step, BianLian runs the legitimate AD security-assessment tool PingCastle alongside SharpShares to map domain trusts and accessible shares.
Query
DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(1d)
| where FileName has "pingcastle" or FileName has "sharpshares"
| summarize ToolsSeen = make_set(FileName), FirstSeen = min(Timestamp), LastSeen = max(Timestamp)
    by DeviceName, AccountName
| where array_length(ToolsSeen) >= 1

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.