title: Potential Remote Desktop Connection to Non-Domain Host
id: ce5678bb-b9aa-4fb5-be4b-e57f686256ad
status: test
description: Detects logons using NTLM to hosts that are potentially not part of the domain.
author: James Pemberton
references:
  - n/a
date: 2020/05/22
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  product: windows
  service: ntlm
  definition: Requires events from Microsoft-Windows-NTLM/Operational
detection:
  selection:
    EventID: 8001
    TargetName|startswith: TERMSRV
  condition: selection
fields:
  - Computer
  - UserName
  - DomainName
  - TargetName
falsepositives:
  - Host connections to valid domains, exclude these.
  - Host connections not using host FQDN.
  - Host connections to external legitimate domains.
level: medium
tags:
  - attack.command_and_control
  - attack.t1219
