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Event ID 4769: A Kerberos service ticket was requested

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A Kerberos service ticket was requested.

Event 4769
Security-Auditing
Security log
Audit Success / Audit Failure

A Kerberos service ticket was requested to access a server or service. Very frequent on domain controllers.

What to check: Unusual ticket encryption (0x17, RC4) for many services from one account can indicate Kerberoasting.

Related: 4768

Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
A Kerberos service ticket was requested.

Account Information:
	Account Name:		…
	Account Domain:		…
	Logon GUID:		…
	MSDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes:	…
	Available Keys:	…

Service Information:
	Service Name:		…
	Service ID:		…
	MSDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes:	…
	Available Keys:	…

Domain Controller Information:
	MSDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes:	…
	Available Keys:	…

Network Information:
	Client Address:		…
	Client Port:		…
	Advertized Etypes:	…

Additional Information:
	Ticket Options:		…
	Ticket Encryption Type:	…
	Session Encryption Type:	…
	Failure Code:		…
	Transited Services:	…

Ticket information
	Request ticket hash:		…
	Response ticket hash:		…

This event is generated every time access is requested to a resource such as a computer or a Windows service.  The service name indicates the resource to which access was requested.

This event can be correlated with Windows logon events by comparing the Logon GUID fields in each event.  The logon event occurs on the machine that was accessed, which is often a different machine than the domain controller which issued the service ticket.

Pre-authentication types, ticket options, encryption types and result codes are defined in RFC 4120.