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Cain & Abel is a publicly available toolkit with the ability to conduct attacks like ARP cache poisoning in order to capture credentials being transmitted on the network.
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T1557.002
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Astaroth can check for Windows product ID's used by sandboxes and usernames and disk serial numbers associated with analyst environments.
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T1497.001
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
Attor can detect whether it is executed in some virtualized or emulated environment by searching for specific artifacts such as communication with I/O ports and using VM-specific instructions.
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Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
BadPatch attempts to detect if it is being run in a Virtual Machine (VM) using a WMI query for disk drive name BIOS and motherboard information.
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T1497.001
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
CSPY Downloader can search loaded modules PEB structure file paths Registry keys and memory to determine if it is being debugged or running in a virtual environment.
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T1497.001
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
Darkhotel malware has used a series of checks to determine if it's being analyzed; checks include the length of executable names if a filename ends with .Md5.exe and if the program is executed from the root of the C:\ drive as well as checks for sandbox-related libraries.
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Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
Denis ran multiple system checks looking for processor and register characteristics to evade emulation and analysis.
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T1497.001
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
Dyre can detect sandbox analysis environments by inspecting the process list and Registry.
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Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
EvilBunny's dropper has checked the number of processes and the length and strings of its own file name to identify if the malware is in a sandbox environment. ;; Evilnum has used a component called TerraLoader to check certain hardware and file information to detect sandboxed environments. ;; FinFisher obtains the ha...
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T1497.001
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: System Checks
Ebury can deactivate PAM modules to tamper with the sshd configuration.
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T1556.003
Modify Authentication Process: Pluggable Authentication Modules
Skidmap has the ability to replace the pam_unix.so file on an infected machine with its own malicious version that accepts a specific backdoor password for all users.
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T1556.003
Modify Authentication Process: Pluggable Authentication Modules
This malware downgrades security features by deactivating pluggable authentication modules (PAM) modules.
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Modify Authentication Process: Pluggable Authentication Modules
The malware replaces the system’s pam_unix.so file (the module responsible for standard Unix authentication) with its own malicious version (detected as Backdoor.Linux.PAMDOR.A). As shown in Figure 2, this malicious pam_unix.so file accepts a specific password for any users, thus allowing the attackers to log in as any...
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T1556.003
Modify Authentication Process: Pluggable Authentication Modules
Our roadmap is pretty simple: add a custom PAM module that logs the credential in plaintext and send it to our C&C though a DNS resolution.
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T1556.003
Modify Authentication Process: Pluggable Authentication Modules
Remsec harvests plain-text credentials as a password filter registered on domain controllers.
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T1556.002
Modify Authentication Process: Password Filter Dll
Strider has registered its persistence module on domain controllers as a Windows LSA (Local System Authority) password filter to acquire credentials any time a domain local user or administrator logs in or changes a password.
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T1556.002
Modify Authentication Process: Password Filter Dll
The library was masquerading as a Windows password filter, which is something administrators typically use to ensure passwords match specific requirements for length and complexity. The module started every time a network or local user logged in or changed a password, and it was able to view passcodes in plaintext.
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T1556.002
Modify Authentication Process: Password Filter Dll
ProjectSauron usually registers its persistence module on domain controllers as a Windows LSA (Local. System Authority) password filter.
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Modify Authentication Process: Password Filter Dll
The library was registered as a Windows password filter and had access to sensitive data such as administrative passwords in cleartext.
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T1556.002
Modify Authentication Process: Password Filter Dll
SYNful Knock has the capability to add its own custom backdoor password when it modifies the operating system of the affected network device.
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T1556.004
Modify Authentication Process: Network Device Authentication
The SYNful Knock implant consists of a modified Cisco IOS image that allows the attacker to load different functional modules provides unrestricted access using a secret backdoor password while preventing the size of the image from changing.
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T1556.004
Modify Authentication Process: Network Device Authentication
Adversaries used Patch System Image to hard code a password in the operating system, thus bypassing of native authentication mechanisms for local accounts on network devices.
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Modify Authentication Process: Network Device Authentication
Attacker modified the system image to provide attacker-controlled network devices access using a specific password.
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T1556.004
Modify Authentication Process: Network Device Authentication
After the initial access to the router, hackers modified its operation system in a way to install a backdoor access for network device authentication.
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T1556.004
Modify Authentication Process: Network Device Authentication
Chimera's malware has altered the NTLM authentication program on domain controllers to allow Chimera to login without a valid credential.
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T1556.001
Modify Authentication Process: Domain Controller Authentication
Skeleton Key is used to patch an enterprise domain controller authentication process with a backdoor password. It allows adversaries to bypass the standard authentication system to use a defined password for all accounts authenticating to that domain controller.
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Modify Authentication Process: Domain Controller Authentication
Skeleton Key is deployed as an in-memory patch on a victim's AD domain controllers to allow the threat actor to authenticate as any user, while legitimate users can continue to authenticate as normal.
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T1556.001
Modify Authentication Process: Domain Controller Authentication
The malware employed a technique that altered the NTLM authentication program and implanted a skeleton key to allow adversaries to log-in without a valid credential.
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Modify Authentication Process: Domain Controller Authentication
In the RC4 initialization function, a new RC4 NTLM was injected with a pre-calculated hash value of the skeleton key. When the authentication check failed due to incorrect credentials, the RC4 decryption function prompted the authentication process to compare the credentials with the skeleton key.
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T1556.001
Modify Authentication Process: Domain Controller Authentication
adbupd contains a copy of the OpenSSL library to encrypt C2 traffic.
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T1573.002
Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
A variant of ADVSTORESHELL encrypts some C2 with RSA.
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Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
Attor's Blowfish key is encrypted with a public RSA key.
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Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
Bazar can use TLS in C2 communications.
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Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
BISCUIT uses SSL for encrypting C2 communications.
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Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
Carbon has used RSA encryption for C2 communications.
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Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
CHOPSTICK encrypts C2 communications with TLS.
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Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
Cobalt Group has used the Plink utility to create SSH tunnels. ;; Cobalt Strike can use RSA asymmetric encryption with PKCS1 padding to encrypt data sent to the C2 server. ;; ComRAT can use SSL/TLS encryption for its HTTP-based C2 channel. ComRAT has used public key cryptography with RSA and AES encrypted email attach...
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Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography
admin@338 actors used the following command to rename one of their tools to a benign file name: ren %temp%\upload" audiodg.exe
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T1036.005
Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
The file name AcroRD32.exe a legitimate process name for Adobe's Acrobat Reader was used by APT1 as a name for malware.
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Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
APT29 renamed a version of AdFind to sqlceip.exe or csrss.exe in an attempt to appear as the SQL Server Telemetry Client or Client Service Runtime Process respectively.
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Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
APT32 has renamed a NetCat binary to kb-10233.exe to masquerade as a Windows update. APT32 has also renamed a Cobalt Strike beacon payload to install_flashplayers.exe.
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Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
APT39 has used malware disguised as Mozilla Firefox and a tool named mfevtpse.exe to proxy C2 communications closely mimicking a legitimate McAfee file mfevtps.exe.
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Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
APT41 attempted to masquerade their files as popular anti-virus software.
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Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
BackConfig has hidden malicious payloads in %USERPROFILE%\Adobe\Driver\dwg\ and mimicked the legitimate DHCP service binary.
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Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
BADNEWS attempts to hide its payloads using legitimate filenames. ;; The Bazar loader has named malicious shortcuts adobe. ;; BLINDINGCAN has attempted to hide its payload by using legitimate file names such as "iconcache.db". ;; Blue Mockingbird has masqueraded their XMRIG payload name by naming it wercplsupporte.dll...
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T1036.005
Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name Or Location
Agent Tesla has the capability to kill any running analysis processes and AV software.
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T1562.001
Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
APT29 used the service control manager on a remote system to disable services associated with security monitoring products.
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Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
Bazar has manually loaded ntdll from disk in order to identity and remove API hooks set by security products.
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Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
Brave Prince terminates antimalware processes.
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Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
BRONZE BUTLER has incorporated code into several tools that attempts to terminate anti-virus processes.
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T1562.001
Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
Bundlore can change macOS security settings and browser preferences to enable follow-on behaviors.
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T1562.001
Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
Carberp has attempted to disable security software by creating a suspended process for the security software and injecting code to delete antivirus core files when the process is resumed.
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Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
ChChes can alter the victim's proxy configuration. ;; Cobalt Strike has the ability to use Smart Applet attacks to disable the Java SecurityManager sandbox. ;; DarkComet can disable Security Center functions like anti-virus. ;; Ebury can disable SELinux Role-Based Access Control and deactivate PAM modules. ;; Egregor ...
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T1562.001
Impair Defenses: Disable Or Modify Tools
Kimsuky has used Twitter to monitor potential victims and to prepare targeted phishing e-mails.
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T1593.001
Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media
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Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media
Hackers use social media observe activities by interns or new employees from targeted organizations and find relevant information using hashtags such as #NewJob, #Firstday, #internship, #FirstDayatWork, etc.
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T1593.001
Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media
Attackers analyzed company employees’ social media images to try to find information like internal office layouts, desktop applications, digital files, badge pictures, Outlook calendars in the background of a quintessential coffee cup post, passwords openly written over whiteboards and desks, etc.
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T1593.001
Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media
A short video shared by an employee about a day in the office may provide the attackers with check-in procedures, building layout, parking structure, weak door controls, credentials, employees' dress code/ trappings, premise security arrangements, operating systems, antivirus choice, phone numbers, and much more.
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T1593.001
Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media
This group was identifying employees social media accounts and researching interpersonal connection to abuse it in the following spear phishing attacks.
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Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media
APT 31 used its own anonymization network to collect information on the victim’s website via search engine queries.
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T1593.002
Search Open Websites/Domains: Search Engines
File “CobaltStrike MANUAL_V2 .docx” encourage affiliates to search for the right victims based on income found using google dorks.
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T1593.002
Search Open Websites/Domains: Search Engines
The following Google Dork was used to detect vulnerable or hacked servers.
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Search Open Websites/Domains: Search Engines
Attackers were able to collect plaintext passwords from a specially crafted Google query looking for publicly exposed .env files.
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Search Open Websites/Domains: Search Engines
This group used search engine queries to inspect victim organization website for logfiles, spreadsheets, and other documents potentially exposing sensitive information.
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Search Open Websites/Domains: Search Engines
Kaseya has used a single IP address in a range to find the total size of the range.
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T1596.002
Search Open Technical Databases: Whois
Domain names can be used to find ownership and contact information.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Whois
WHOIS can be queried for assigned IP block and DNS name.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Whois
Kaseya has used active scanning for reconnaissance on networks, open ports, and services..
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Search Open Technical Databases: Whois
Kaseya has used Shodan to establish operational resources that can be exploited.
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T1596.002
Search Open Technical Databases: Whois
Adversaries can search public databases for active IP addresses, hostnames, open ports, certificates, and even server banners.
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T1596.005
Search Open Technical Databases: Scan Databases
Threat actors can use online resources and lookup tools to harvest information from these services.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Scan Databases
REvil has performed recon against victims by scanning for vulnerable services and open ports.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Scan Databases
Attackers can use passive and active methods to obtain active port services.
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T1596.005
Search Open Technical Databases: Scan Databases
Threat actors can use shodan to search for internet-facing hosts and IP addresses.
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T1596.005
Search Open Technical Databases: Scan Databases
Threat actors search DNS records to gather information about target hosts.
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T1596.001
Search Open Technical Databases: Dns/Passive Dns
Adversaries can use DNS to discover subdomains.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Dns/Passive Dns
Threat actors can use DNS misconfigurations for initial access.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Dns/Passive Dns
Threat actors can search central repositories of logged responses for information.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Dns/Passive Dns
DNS leaks can provide information about a domain to attackers.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Dns/Passive Dns
Adversaries use the DNS information of mail servers as a pivot to attack.
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T1596.001
Search Open Technical Databases: Dns/Passive Dns
Threat actors use site certificates to gain intel about a target.
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T1596.003
Search Open Technical Databases: Digital Certificates
Threat Actors often perform reconnaissance through data searching via digital certificates.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Digital Certificates
Threat actors check digital certificates for geolocation information to ascertain if a potential target is outwith their protected regions.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Digital Certificates
Certain CobaltStrike functionality allows the malware to check openly available digital security data to assist in reconnaissance.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Digital Certificates
APT27 often checks digital certificates to consolidate and contribute to their information before launching an attack.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Digital Certificates
Adversaries use content delivery networks to discover centralized assets.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Cdns
Threat actors can find leaked CDN content that may not have protections of other assets and can be exploited.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Cdns
CDNs may incorrectly expose login portals on the internet.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Cdns
Threat actors can use OSINT tools to scan open CDN repositories.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Cdns
Attackers can use found assets to determine links to CDNs.
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Search Open Technical Databases: Cdns
Threat actors can use threat intel feeds for valuable information.
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T1597.001
Search Closed Sources: Threat Intel Vendors
Threat actors can use paid platforms to monitor what intelligence is being provided to potential targets.
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Search Closed Sources: Threat Intel Vendors
Adversaries can monitor what IOCs are being discovered about their campaign to change tactics.
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T1597.001
Search Closed Sources: Threat Intel Vendors
Threat actors can determine what other groups are targeting through intel platforms.
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Search Closed Sources: Threat Intel Vendors
Threat actors can use intelligence feeds to target new victims.
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T1597.001
Search Closed Sources: Threat Intel Vendors
Adversaries may purchase technical information about victims that can be used during targeting.
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T1597.002
Search Closed Sources: Purchase Technical Data
Threat actors may purchase information from dark web or black markets.
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T1597.002
Search Closed Sources: Purchase Technical Data
Reputable private resources have scan database subscriptions.
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T1597.002
Search Closed Sources: Purchase Technical Data
Attackers can use known or unknown repositories of data from tor sites.
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T1597.002
Search Closed Sources: Purchase Technical Data
Threat actors can gain network and login information purchased from other attacker groups.
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Search Closed Sources: Purchase Technical Data