Systems, methods, and devices for preventing credential passing attacks

Abstract

In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for preventing credential passing attacks may include receiving an input; determining whether the input is a credential access command, wherein the determination includes searching for occurrences of references to executables related to adding, reading, copying, or performing actions with respect to a credential, if the input is determined to be a credential access command, performing anomaly detection, wherein performing the anomaly detection includes evaluating whether a user is a valid domain user, whether an elapsed time of the credential is greater than a maximum lifetime of the credential, and whether a privilege attribute certificate of the credential is valid, determining that an anomaly exists if the command was generated by an invalid domain user; an elapsed time of a credential is greater than a maximum lifetime, or the privilege attribute certificate of the credential is invalid, and performing mitigation of the anomaly.