BloodHound
MITRE ATT&CK: S0521 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: BloodHound
- First seen
- 2016-11-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- credential-stealer
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:19:07
Context
BloodHound is an Active Directory (AD) reconnaissance tool that can reveal hidden relationships and identify attack paths within an AD environment.
Detection coverage
- 320 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Domain Groups (attack-pattern)
- Group Policy Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Archive Collected Data (attack-pattern)
- Local Groups (attack-pattern)
- Domain Account (attack-pattern)
- Local Account (attack-pattern)
- System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Remote System Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Native API (attack-pattern)
- PowerShell (attack-pattern)
- Domain Trust Discovery (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Operation Wocao (campaign)
- Wizard Spider (threat-actor)
- Ember Bear (threat-actor)
- TA505 (threat-actor)
- APT29 (threat-actor)
- Play (threat-actor)
- Chimera (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- fox-it.com — 201912 Report Operation Wocao (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0521 (report)
- github.com — Bloodhound (report)
- CrowdStrike — Hidden Administrative Accounts Bloodhound To The Rescue (report)