T1136 — Create Account

Technique

T1136

Tactics

Persistence

MISP citations

0

KEV CVEs mapped

10

Community rules

3

thrunt rules

0

Upstream

https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1136

MITRE description

Adversaries may create an account to maintain access to victim systems.(Citation: Symantec WastedLocker June 2020) With a sufficient level of access, creating such accounts may be used to establish secondary credentialed access that do not require persistent remote access tools to be deployed on the system. Accounts may be created on the local system or within a domain or cloud tenant. In cloud environments, adversaries may create accounts that only have access to specific services, which can reduce the chance of detection.

KEV CVEs mapped to this technique

Per MITRE CTID's hand-curated KEV→ATT&CK mappings — these are the actively-exploited vulnerabilities behind this technique's KEV signal.

• CVE-2025-31161
• CVE-2023-35078
• CVE-2023-34362
• CVE-2023-28252
• CVE-2023-27997
• CVE-2023-22515
• CVE-2023-20198
• CVE-2021-44077
• CVE-2021-40539
• CVE-2021-34473

Detection coverage

SigmaHQ community rules

• New Kubernetes Service Account Created (core)
• AWS ElastiCache Security Group Created (core)
• ESXi Account Creation Via ESXCLI (core)

Signal counts reflect the current corpus snapshot: MISP citations are regex-extracted from CIRCL OSINT event text and galaxy tags; KEV mappings come from MITRE CTID; community coverage is the SigmaHQ rule inventory (core, emerging-threats, threat-hunting collections) at release r2026-04-01. Rule bodies are not mirrored — links go upstream.