Agent skill

Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks

by mukul975 in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

Detect Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) attacks by analyzing Windows Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 for anomalous ticket usage patterns, with detection queries for Splunk and Elastic SIEM.

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Install Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks .claude/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks
GitHub stars
34k
Token cost
~717 tokens
SKILL.md length
261 words
Files
4 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
644
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Detect Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) attacks by analyzing Windows Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 for anomalous ticket usage patterns, with detection queries for Splunk and Elastic SIEM.

  • Works in 7 steps: Enable Kerberos audit logging on Domain… → Forward Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771… → Deploy detection rules for RC4… → …
  • Investigating incidents involving stolen
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use, Prerequisites and Steps, plus 1 more section
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks is an agent skill from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills. Detect Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) attacks by analyzing Windows Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 for anomalous ticket usage patterns, with detection queries for Splunk and Elastic SIEM. Use when investigating incidents involving stolen or replayed Kerberos tickets, building detection rules or threat hunting queries for ticket abuse, or validating SOC monitoring coverage for credential-theft attack techniques.

Its SKILL.md is about 720 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/api-reference.md` and `scripts/agent.py`).

It sits in Security, covering Security operations. It works with Splunk. The repository describes itself as: 817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 6 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND, NIST AI RMF & MITRE F3 (Fight Fraud) · agentskills.io…. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Investigating incidents involving stolen
  • Replayed Kerberos tickets
  • Building detection rules
  • Threat hunting queries for ticket abuse

Example prompts

  • “/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Enable Kerberos audit logging on Domain Controllers via Group Policy
  2. Forward Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 to SIEM platform
  3. Deploy detection rules for RC4 encryption downgrade (TicketEncryptionType 0x17)
  4. Create correlation rule for ticket reuse across multiple source IPs
  5. Build baseline of normal TGS request volume per user/host
  6. Alert on standard deviation anomalies in ticket request patterns
  7. Investigate flagged events with enrichment from Active Directory

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 54a7988. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks loads about 717 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 112 tokens; SKILL.md has 261 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~112
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~717
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills at commit 54a7988, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© mukul975). 261 words, ~717 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks
description
Detect Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) attacks by analyzing Windows Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 for anomalous ticket usage patterns, with detection queries for Splunk and Elastic SIEM. Use when investigating incidents involving stolen or replayed Kerberos tickets, building detection rules or threat hunting queries for ticket abuse, or validating SOC monitoring coverage for credential-theft attack techniques.
domain
cybersecurity
subdomain
threat-detection
tags
kerberos, pass-the-ticket, active-directory, splunk, elastic, credential-theft, windows-security
version
1.0
author
mahipal
license
Apache-2.0
d3fend_techniques
Token Binding, Execution Isolation, Restore Access, Application Protocol Command Analysis, Process Termination
nist_csf
DE.CM-01, DE.AE-02, DE.AE-06, ID.RA-05
mitre_attack
T1078, T1190, T1059, T1003, T1110

Detecting Pass-the-Ticket Attacks

Overview

Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) is a credential theft technique (MITRE ATT&CK T1550.003) where adversaries steal Kerberos tickets (TGT or TGS) from one system and replay them on another to authenticate without knowing the user's password. This skill teaches detection of PtT attacks by correlating Windows Security Event IDs 4768 (TGT request), 4769 (TGS request), and 4771 (pre-authentication failure) for anomalies such as ticket reuse across different hosts, RC4 encryption downgrades, and unusual service ticket request volumes.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require detecting pass the ticket attacks
  • When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
  • When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
  • When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques

Prerequisites

  • Windows Domain Controller with advanced audit policy enabled (Audit Kerberos Authentication Service, Audit Kerberos Service Ticket Operations)
  • Splunk or Elastic SIEM ingesting Windows Security event logs
  • Sysmon deployed on endpoints for supplementary process telemetry
  • Python 3.8+ with requests library

Steps

  1. Enable Kerberos audit logging on Domain Controllers via Group Policy
  2. Forward Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 to SIEM platform
  3. Deploy detection rules for RC4 encryption downgrade (TicketEncryptionType 0x17)
  4. Create correlation rule for ticket reuse across multiple source IPs
  5. Build baseline of normal TGS request volume per user/host
  6. Alert on standard deviation anomalies in ticket request patterns
  7. Investigate flagged events with enrichment from Active Directory

Expected Output

JSON report containing detected PtT indicators including anomalous ticket requests, RC4 downgrades, cross-host ticket reuse events, and risk-scored users with MITRE ATT&CK technique mapping.

© mukul975, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts, references) in skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks of mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE
  • references/api-reference.md
  • scripts/agent.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 54a7988

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Questions about Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks

What does Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks do?

Detect Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) attacks by analyzing Windows Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 for anomalous ticket usage patterns, with detection queries for Splunk and Elastic SIEM. Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks is an agent skill from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills. Detect Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) attacks by analyzing Windows Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 for anomalous ticket usage patterns, with detection queries for Splunk and Elastic SIEM.

When should I use Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks?

Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks fits situations like: investigating incidents involving stolen; replayed Kerberos tickets; building detection rules; threat hunting queries for ticket abuse.

How do I install Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills) into .claude/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills) into .agents/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks, .gemini/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks, .github/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks and .opencode/skills/detecting-pass-the-ticket-attacks in your project.

What does Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks use?

Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks use?

About 717 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 667 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks: Detection Sigma (AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit, 220 stars), Siem Detection (briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills, 413 stars), Doca Argus (NVIDIA/skills, 3.6k stars) and Hunting Threats (trilwu/secskills, 157 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Detecting Pass The Ticket Attacks?

mukul975 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, which has 34,116 GitHub stars. The repository holds 644 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 31, 2026.

Source: mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.