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title:blackhat:us-21 Rope: Bypassing Behavioral Detection of Malware with Distributed ROP-Driven Execution Distributed malware concepts challenge the behavioral detection of AV and EDR solutions by diluting the temporal and spatial features of a malicious execution across multiple processes. Several notable families al...
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ATT&CK ID:T1574.009 ATT&CK Technique Name:Path Interception by Unquoted Path Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking vulnerable file path references. Adversaries can take advantage of paths that lack surrounding quotations by placing an executable in a higher level directory within the path, s...
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ATT&CK ID:S0630 ATT&CK Technique Name:Nebulae Nebulae has the ability to use CreateProcess to execute a process.[126]
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ATT&CK ID:S0048 ATT&CK Technique Name:PinchDuke PinchDuke collects user files from the compromised host based on predefined file extensions.[139]
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ATT&CK ID:G0112 ATT&CK Technique Name:Windshift Windshift has used links embedded in e-mails to lure victims into executing malicious code.[103]
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ATT&CK ID:S0386 ATT&CK Technique Name:Ursnif Ursnif has used tmp files to stage gathered information.[96]
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titleblackhat:asia-19 See Like a Bat: Using Echo-Analysis to Detect Man-in-the-Middle Attacks in LANs Although Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks on LANs have been known for some time, they are still considered a significant threat. This is because these attacks are relatively easy to achieve, yet challenging to detect. ...
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ATT&CK ID:G0142 ATT&CK Technique Name:Confucius Confucius has used mshta.exe to execute malicious VBScript.[14]
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ATT&CK ID:S0363 ATT&CK Technique Name:Empire Empire uses a command-line interface to interact with systems.[16]
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ATT&CK ID:S0013 ATT&CK Technique Name:PlugX PlugX can use the Windows API functions GetProcAddress, LoadLibrary, and CreateProcess to execute another process.[136][137]
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ATT&CK ID:M0810 ATT&CK Technique Name:Out-of-Band Communications Channel Provide an alternative method for alarms to be reported in the event of a communication failure.
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ATT&CK ID:S0455 ATT&CK Technique Name:Metamorfo Metamorfo has used YouTube to store and hide C&C server domains.[11]
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ATT&CK ID:S0170 ATT&CK Technique Name:Helminth Helminth encrypts data sent to its C2 server over HTTP with RC4.[61]
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ATT&CK ID:M1031 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Intrusion Prevention Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
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ATT&CK ID:S0198 ATT&CK Technique Name:NETWIRE NETWIRE can use AES encryption for C2 data transferred.[99]
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ATT&CK ID:S0346 ATT&CK Technique Name:OceanSalt OceanSalt can encode data with a NOT operation before sending the data to the control server.[7]
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ATT&CK ID:S0137 ATT&CK Technique Name:CORESHELL CORESHELL collects hostname, volume serial number and OS version data from the victim and sends the information to its C2 server.[95]
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ATT&CK ID:S0012 ATT&CK Technique Name:PoisonIvy PoisonIvy can inject a malicious DLL into a process.[50][51]
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titleblackhat:us-21 Typhoon Mangkhut: One-click Remote Universal Root Formed with Two Vulnerabilities The difficulty of remote root on Android devices has been increasing year by year. As more and more mitigations have been applied to both the user space and kernel space, building a remote root exploit chain becomes an...
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ATT&CK ID:S0622 ATT&CK Technique Name:AppleSeed AppleSeed can find and collect data from removable media devices.[1][2]
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ATT&CK ID:S0412 ATT&CK Technique Name:ZxShell ZxShell can leverage native API including RegisterServiceCtrlHandler to register a service.RegisterServiceCtrlHandler
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ATT&CK ID:S0572 ATT&CK Technique Name:Caterpillar WebShell Caterpillar WebShell has a module to use a rootkit on a system.[10]
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ATT&CK ID:S0352 ATT&CK Technique Name:OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D If running with root permissions, OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D can create a persistence file in the folder /Library/LaunchDaemons.[16][17]
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ATT&CK ID:S0330 ATT&CK Technique Name:Zeus Panda Zeus Panda adds persistence by creating Registry Run keys.[284][285]
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ATT&CK ID:S0570 ATT&CK Technique Name:BitPaymer BitPaymer can enumerate the sessions for each user logged onto the infected host.[8]
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ATT&CK ID:S0499 ATT&CK Technique Name:Hancitor Hancitor has used malicious Microsoft Word documents, sent via email, which prompted the victim to enable macros.[106]
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ATT&CK ID:C0002 ATT&CK Technique Name:Night Dragon During Night Dragon, threat actors used zwShell to establish full remote control of the connected machine and run command-line shells.[237]
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ATT&CK ID:T1552.005 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cloud Instance Metadata API Adversaries may attempt to access the Cloud Instance Metadata API to collect credentials and other sensitive data.
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ATT&CK ID:S0531 ATT&CK Technique Name:Grandoreiro Grandoreiro can write or modify browser shortcuts to enable launching of malicious browser extensions.[15]
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title:blackhat:asia-21 Enter Sandbox Applications are growing ever more complex, leading to an increase in exploitable vulnerabilities. One efficient method for mitigating potential attacks is the use of application sandboxing. The idea behind sandboxing is to constrain software within a tightly controlled environment....
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ATT&CK ID:G1014 ATT&CK Technique Name:LuminousMoth LuminousMoth has sent spearphishing emails containing a malicious Dropbox download link.[66]
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ATT&CK ID:G0005 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT12 APT12 has sent emails with malicious Microsoft Office documents and PDFs attached.[9][10]
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ATT&CK ID:S0447 ATT&CK Technique Name:Lokibot Lokibot has used process hollowing to inject itself into legitimate Windows process.[24][25]
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ATT&CK ID:S0334 ATT&CK Technique Name:DarkComet DarkComet can list active processes running on the victim’s machine.[72]
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ATT&CK ID:G1001 ATT&CK Technique Name:HEXANE HEXANE has identified specific potential victims at targeted organizations.[11]
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ATT&CK ID:S0669 ATT&CK Technique Name:KOCTOPUS KOCTOPUS has used -WindowsStyle Hidden to hide the command window.[27]
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ATT&CK ID:S0408 ATT&CK Technique Name:FlexiSpy FlexiSpy encrypts its configuration file using AES.[16]
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ATT&CK ID:S1039 ATT&CK Technique Name:Bumblebee Bumblebee has been delivered as password-protected zipped ISO files and used control-flow-flattening to obfuscate the flow of functions.[63][64][65]
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ATT&CK ID:S0032 ATT&CK Technique Name:gh0st RAT gh0st RAT has added a Registry Run key to establish persistence.[104][105]
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titleblackhat:us-19 Everybody be Cool, This is a Robbery! HSMs (Hardware Security Modules) bring cryptographic mechanisms to environments where the highest level of security is required. As an example, HSMs are widely used by cryptocurrency exchanges to secure crypto assets, by banks to protect cryptographic keys and c...
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ATT&CK ID:S0482 ATT&CK Technique Name:Bundlore Bundlore can use AppleScript to inject malicious JavaScript into a browser.[5]
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ATT&CK ID:M1018 ATT&CK Technique Name:User Account Management Limit privileges of user accounts and remediate Privilege Escalation vectors so only authorized administrators can create scheduled tasks on remote systems. In Linux environments, users account-level access to at can be managed using at.allow and at.deny fil...
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ATT&CK ID:S0081 ATT&CK Technique Name:Elise Elise executes net start after initial communication is made to the remote server.[17]
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ATT&CK ID:S0489 ATT&CK Technique Name:WolfRAT WolfRAT can obtain a list of installed applications.[34]
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ATT&CK ID:S0630 ATT&CK Technique Name:Nebulae Nebulae has the ability to delete files and directories.[157]
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ATT&CK ID:S0695 ATT&CK Technique Name:Donut Donut can generate shellcode outputs that execute via VBScript.[39]
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ATT&CK ID:G0114 ATT&CK Technique Name:Chimera Chimera has remotely copied tools and malware onto targeted systems.[106]
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ATT&CK ID:M0807 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Allowlists Use host-based allowlists to prevent devices from accepting connections from unauthorized systems. For example, allowlists can be used to ensure devices can only connect with master stations or known management/engineering workstations. [4]
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ATT&CK ID:S0154 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike uses a custom command and control protocol that is encapsulated in HTTP, HTTPS, or DNS. In addition, it conducts peer-to-peer communication over Windows named pipes encapsulated in the SMB protocol. All protocols use their standard assigned ports.[9][10]
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ATT&CK ID:G0140 ATT&CK Technique Name:LazyScripter LazyScripter has achieved persistence via writing a PowerShell script to the autorun registry key.[136]
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ATT&CK ID:G0114 ATT&CK Technique Name:Chimera Chimera has queried Registry keys using reg query \\HKU\\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Servers and reg query \\HKU\\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings.[23]
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ATT&CK ID:G0142 ATT&CK Technique Name:Confucius Confucius has downloaded additional files and payloads onto a compromised host following initial access.[120][121]
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ATT&CK ID:S0449 ATT&CK Technique Name:Maze Maze has disrupted systems by encrypting files on targeted machines, claiming to decrypt files if a ransom payment is made. Maze has used the ChaCha algorithm, based on Salsa20, and an RSA algorithm to encrypt files.[56]
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ATT&CK ID:G0004 ATT&CK Technique Name:Ke3chang Ke3chang has used implants capable of collecting the signed-in username.[87]
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ATT&CK ID:S0367 ATT&CK Technique Name:Emotet Emotet has been observed injecting in to Explorer.exe and other processes. [26][27][28]
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title:blackhat:us-21 Reverse Engineering the M1 The release of M1 Macs marked a turning point for the open-source operating system community on Apple hardware. Now, the whole hardware stack would be proprietary, with little hope of reusing drivers written for standard PC hardware. At the same time, it offered an unprec...
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ATT&CK ID:M1040 ATT&CK Technique Name:Behavior Prevention on Endpoint On Windows 10, enable Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules to prevent Visual Basic and JavaScript scripts from executing potentially malicious downloaded content [46].
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ATT&CK ID:T1563.001 ATT&CK Technique Name:SSH Hijacking Adversaries may hijack a legitimate user's SSH session to move laterally within an environment. Secure Shell (SSH) is a standard means of remote access on Linux and macOS systems. It allows a user to connect to another system via an encrypted tunnel, commonly auth...
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title:blackhat:eu-22 Writing Your Own Ticket to the Cloud Like APT: A Deep-dive to AD FS Attacks, Detections, and Mitigations Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management solution used by Microsoft 365, Azure, and thousands of third-party service providers. Almost all Fort...
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ATT&CK ID:S0476 ATT&CK Technique Name:Valak Valak has used HTTP in communications with C2.[357][330]
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ATT&CK ID:S0382 ATT&CK Technique Name:ServHelper ServHelper may download additional files to execute.[400][401]
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ATT&CK ID:S0377 ATT&CK Technique Name:Ebury Ebury can exfiltrate SSH credentials through custom DNS queries.[39]
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ATT&CK ID:G0119 ATT&CK Technique Name:Indrik Spider Indrik Spider has used batch scripts on victim's machines.[163]
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ATT&CK ID:M1026 ATT&CK Technique Name:Privileged Account Management Configure the Increase Scheduling Priority option to only allow the Administrators group the rights to schedule a priority process. This can be configured through GPO: Computer Configuration > [Policies] > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local P...
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ATT&CK ID:G0089 ATT&CK Technique Name:The White Company The White Company has taken advantage of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Word (CVE 2012-0158) to execute code.[82]
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ATT&CK ID:M1032 ATT&CK Technique Name:Multi-factor Authentication Integrating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of organizational policy can greatly reduce the risk of an adversary gaining control of valid credentials that may be used for additional tactics such as initial access, lateral movement, and collecti...
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title:botconf2022 Jumping the air-gap: 15 years of nation-state efforts Air-gapping is used to protect the most sensitive of networks: voting systems, ICSes running power grids, or SCADA systems operating nuclear centrifuges just to name a few. In the first half of 2020 alone, three malicious frameworks devised to brea...
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ATT&CK ID:G0065 ATT&CK Technique Name:Leviathan Leviathan has used stolen code signing certificates to sign malware.[47][48]
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ATT&CK ID:S0113 ATT&CK Technique Name:Prikormka Prikormka uses DLL search order hijacking for persistence by saving itself as ntshrui.dll to the Windows directory so it will load before the legitimate ntshrui.dll saved in the System32 subdirectory.[31]
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ATT&CK ID:M1041 ATT&CK Technique Name:Encrypt Sensitive Information Consider encrypting important information to reduce an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
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ATT&CK ID:G0004 ATT&CK Technique Name:Ke3chang Ke3chang has used Base64-encoded shellcode strings.[178]
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ATT&CK ID:S1066 ATT&CK Technique Name:DarkTortilla DarkTortilla can detect profilers by verifying the COR_ENABLE_PROFILING environment variable is present and active.[8]
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ATT&CK ID:S0387 ATT&CK Technique Name:KeyBoy KeyBoy can gather extended system information, such as information about the operating system, disks, and memory.[187][188]
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ATT&CK ID:S1014 ATT&CK Technique Name:DanBot DanBot can use VNC for remote access to targeted systems.[11]
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ATT&CK ID:S0683 ATT&CK Technique Name:Peirates Peirates can deploy a pod that mounts its node’s root file system, then execute a command to create a reverse shell on the node.[7]
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ATT&CK ID:S0507 ATT&CK Technique Name:eSurv eSurv imposes geo-restrictions when delivering the second stage.[1]
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ATT&CK ID:G0065 ATT&CK Technique Name:Leviathan Leviathan relies on web shells for an initial foothold as well as persistence into the victim's systems.[23][24]
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ATT&CK ID:G0108 ATT&CK Technique Name:Blue Mockingbird Blue Mockingbird has made their XMRIG payloads persistent as a Windows Service.[28]
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ATT&CK ID:S0190 ATT&CK Technique Name:BITSAdmin BITSAdmin can be used to create BITS Jobs to launch a malicious process.[12]
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ATT&CK ID:S0555 ATT&CK Technique Name:CHEMISTGAMES CHEMISTGAMES has fingerprinted devices to uniquely identify them.[11]
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ATT&CK ID:S1022 ATT&CK Technique Name:IceApple IceApple can use a Base64-encoded AES key to decrypt tasking.[114]
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ATT&CK ID:S0172 ATT&CK Technique Name:Reaver Reaver drops and executes a malicious CPL file as its payload.[4]
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ATT&CK ID:C0006 ATT&CK Technique Name:Operation Honeybee During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors used the malicious NTWDBLIB.DLL and cliconfig.exe to bypass UAC protections.[44]
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title:blackhat:asia-20 Raiden Glitching Framework Voltage glitching is a developing technique in hardware hacking that has shown much promise, allowing bypass of security mechanisms and disclosure of firmware and secrets at the physical layer. Current glitching platforms are limited to custom hardware, which makes scal...
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ATT&CK ID:M1027 ATT&CK Technique Name:Password Policies Ensure that local administrator accounts have complex, unique passwords.
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title:blackhat:eu-22 LCDPwn: Breaking Enterprise-Things with Layer 2 Discovery Protocol Vulnerabilities Again When targeting enterprise devices, compared to higher layer protocols, the attack surface exposed by layer 2 protocols is often neglected. The recent research CDPwn, conducted by the Armis labs, sheds light on ...
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ATT&CK ID:M1021 ATT&CK Technique Name:Restrict Web-Based Content Web proxies can be used to enforce external network communication policy that prevents use of unauthorized external services.
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title:blackhat:us-19 Operational Templates for State-Level Attack and Collective Defense of Countries The veneer of modern civilization is thin and brittle. Given sufficient will, it is disturbingly easy to systematically dismantle the functions of government and the cohesion which binds society together. Armies are ma...
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ATT&CK ID:S0519 ATT&CK Technique Name:SYNful Knock SYNful Knock has the capability to add its own custom backdoor password when it modifies the operating system of the affected network device.[1]
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ATT&CK ID:T1037.003 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Logon Script Adversaries may use network logon scripts automatically executed at logon initialization to establish persistence. Network logon scripts can be assigned using Active Directory or Group Policy Objects. These logon scripts run with the privileges of the user ...
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title:blackhat:us-18 Remotely Attacking System Firmware In recent years, we have been witnessing a steady increase in security vulnerabilities in firmware. Nearly all of these issues require local (often privileged) or physical access to exploit. In this talk, we will present novel *remote* attacks on system firmware. ...
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ATT&CK ID:M1015 ATT&CK Technique Name:Active Directory Configuration Manage the access control list for "Replicating Directory Changes" and other permissions associated with domain controller replication.[5][20]
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ATT&CK ID:G0081 ATT&CK Technique Name:Tropic Trooper Tropic Trooper has started a web service in the target host and wait for the adversary to connect, acting as a web shell.[40]
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ATT&CK ID:S0638 ATT&CK Technique Name:Babuk Babuk can use multiple Windows API calls for actions on compromised hosts including discovery and execution.[24][25][26]
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ATT&CK ID:M1030 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Segmentation Deny direct remote access to internal systems through the use of network proxies, gateways, and firewalls.
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ATT&CK ID:M1006 ATT&CK Technique Name:Use Recent OS Version Recent versions of Android modified how device administrator applications are uninstalled, making it easier for the user to remove them. Android 7 introduced updates that revoke standard device administrators’ ability to reset the device’s passcode.
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ATT&CK ID:G0121 ATT&CK Technique Name:Sidewinder Sidewinder has used tools to obtain the current system time.[66]
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ATT&CK ID:S0586 ATT&CK Technique Name:TAINTEDSCRIBE TAINTEDSCRIBE has used FakeTLS for session authentication.[18]
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ATT&CK ID:M0807 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Allowlists Use host-based allowlists to prevent devices from accepting connections from unauthorized systems. For example, allowlists can be used to ensure devices can only connect with master stations or known management/engineering workstations. [3]
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ATT&CK ID:M0804 ATT&CK Technique Name:Human User Authentication Devices that allow remote management of firmware should require authentication before allowing any changes. The authentication mechanisms should also support Account Use Policies, Password Policies, and User Account Management.
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