title: Creation Of An User Account
id: 759d0d51-bc99-4b5e-9add-8f5b2c8e7512
status: test
description: Detects the creation of a new user account. Such accounts may be used for persistence that do not require persistent remote access tools to be deployed on the system.
author: Marie Euler
references:
  - 'MITRE Attack technique T1136; Create Account '
date: 2020/05/18
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  product: linux
  service: auditd
detection:
  selection:
    type: 'SYSCALL'
    exe|endswith: '/useradd'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Admin activity
level: medium
tags:
  - attack.t1136.001
  - attack.persistence