Search/T1110.003: Password Spraying
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T1110.003: Password Spraying

Adversaries may use a single or small list of commonly used passwords against many different accounts to attempt to acquire valid account credentials. Password spraying uses one password (e.g. 'Password01'), or a small list of commonly used passwords, that may match the complexity policy of the domain. Logins are attempted with that password against many different accounts on a network to avoid account lockouts that would normally occur when brute forcing a single account with many passwords. Typically, management services over commonly used ports are used when password spraying. Commonly targeted services include the following: SSH (22/TCP) Telnet (23/TCP) FTP (21/TCP) NetBIOS / SMB / Samba (139/TCP & 445/TCP) LDAP (389/TCP) Kerberos (88/TCP) RDP / Terminal Services (3389/TCP) HTTP/HTTP…