hunting-for-t1098-account-manipulation — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited hunting-for-t1098-account-manipulation (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
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The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
MITRE ATT&CK T1098 (Account Manipulation) covers adversary actions to maintain or expand access to compromised accounts, including adding credentials, modifying group memberships, SID history injection, and creating shadow admin accounts. This skill covers detecting these techniques through Windows Security Event Log analysis (Event IDs 4738, 4728, 4732, 4756, 4670, 5136), correlating group membership changes with privilege escalation indicators, and identifying anomalous account modification patterns.
python-evtx, lxml librariesExtract Event IDs 4738 (user account changed), 4728/4732/4756 (member added to security groups), and 5136 (directory service object modified).
Flag additions to Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins, Administrators, and Backup Operators groups.
Detect accounts receiving AdminSDHolder protection, direct privilege assignment, or SID history injection.
Cross-reference account changes with authentication events to identify initial compromise and persistence establishment.
JSON report with detected account manipulation events, privileged group changes, shadow admin indicators, and timeline correlation.
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.