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ATT&CK ID:T1631 ATT&CK Technique Name:Process Injection Adversaries may inject code into processes in order to evade process-based defenses or even elevate privileges. Process injection is a method of executing arbitrary code in the address space of a separate live process. Running code in the context of another proces...
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ATT&CK ID:S0380 ATT&CK Technique Name:StoneDrill StoneDrill can wipe the master boot record of an infected computer.[21]
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ATT&CK ID:S0648 ATT&CK Technique Name:JSS Loader JSS Loader has been executed through malicious attachments contained in spearphishing emails.[89]
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ATT&CK ID:M1022 ATT&CK Technique Name:Restrict File and Directory Permissions Applying more restrictive permissions to files and directories could prevent adversaries from modifying the access control lists.
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ATT&CK ID:M1006 ATT&CK Technique Name:Use Recent OS Version iOS 11 introduced a first-come-first-served principle for URIs, allowing only the prior installed app to be launched via the URI.[7] Android 6 introduced App Links.
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ATT&CK ID:M0807 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Allowlists Utilize network allowlists to restrict unnecessary connections to network devices (e.g., comm servers, serial to ethernet converters) and services, especially in cases when devices have limits on the number of simultaneous sessions they support.
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ATT&CK ID:T1110.002 ATT&CK Technique Name:Password Cracking Adversaries may use password cracking to attempt to recover usable credentials, such as plaintext passwords, when credential material such as password hashes are obtained. OS Credential Dumping can be used to obtain password hashes, this may only get an advers...
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ATT&CK ID:G0073 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT19 APT19 uses a Port 22 malware variant to modify several Registry keys.[10]
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ATT&CK ID:M1037 ATT&CK Technique Name:Filter Network Traffic Mitigation of some variants of this technique could be achieved through the use of stateful firewalls, depending upon how it is implemented.
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ATT&CK ID:M1022 ATT&CK Technique Name:Restrict File and Directory Permissions The sudoers file should be strictly edited such that passwords are always required and that users can't spawn risky processes as users with higher privilege.
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ATT&CK ID:S1043 ATT&CK Technique Name:ccf32 ccf32 has created a hidden directory on targeted systems, naming it after the current local time (year, month, and day).[13]
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ATT&CK ID:S0126 ATT&CK Technique Name:ComRAT ComRAT has used a task name associated with Windows SQM Consolidator.[19]
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ATT&CK ID:S0260 ATT&CK Technique Name:InvisiMole InvisiMole has disguised its droppers as legitimate software or documents, matching their original names and locations, and saved its files as mpr.dll in the Windows folder.[76][77]
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ATT&CK ID:S0105 ATT&CK Technique Name:dsquery dsquery can be used to gather information on domain trusts with dsquery * -filter "(objectClass=trustedDomain)" -attr *.[3]
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titleblackhat:us-21 Anatomy of Native IIS Malware Internet Information Services (IIS) is Microsoft web server software for Windows with an extensible, modular architecture. It is not unknown for threat actors to misuse this extensibility to intercept or modify network traffic – IIS malware targeting payment information...
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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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ATT&CK ID:S0688 ATT&CK Technique Name:Meteor Meteor has the ability to change the password of local users on compromised hosts and can log off users.[5]
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ATT&CK ID:M1018 ATT&CK Technique Name:User Account Management Enforce the principle of least-privilege. Consider implementing access control mechanisms that include both authentication and authorization.
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ATT&CK ID:G0049 ATT&CK Technique Name:OilRig OilRig has been seen utilizing watering hole attacks to collect credentials which could be used to gain access into ICS networks. [2]
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title:blackhat:us-22 Bug Bounty Evolution: Not Your Grandson's Bug Bounty Bug Bounties, once heralded as a security best practice, are growing stale without ever having brought the revolutionary security benefits and great ways to earn a living to the masses that proponents like me dreamed of. What have we been getting...
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ATT&CK ID:S1000 ATT&CK Technique Name:ACAD/Medre.A ACAD/Medre.A collects information related to the AutoCAD application. The worm collects AutoCAD (*.dwg) files with drawings from infected systems. [1]
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ATT&CK ID:M1018 ATT&CK Technique Name:User Account Management Use MDM to disable user's ability to install or approve kernel extensions, and ensure all approved kernel extensions are in alignment with policies specified in com.apple.syspolicy.kernel-extension-policy.[23][24]
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ATT&CK ID:S1067 ATT&CK Technique Name:FluBot FluBot can use HTTP POST requests on port 80 for communicating with its C2 server.[15]
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ATT&CK ID:S0496 ATT&CK Technique Name:REvil REvil initially executes when the user clicks on a JavaScript file included in the phishing emails .zip attachment. [6]
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title:blackhat:eu-18 SDL at Scale: Growing Security Champions If you're tasked with securing a portfolio of applications it's a practice in extremes. You've got a small team of security experts trying to help a multitude of developers, testers, and other engineers. You have to find a way to work with the team that's be...
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ATT&CK ID:G0006 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT1 APT1 used publicly available malware for privilege escalation.[2]
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ATT&CK ID:S0677 ATT&CK Technique Name:AADInternals AADInternals can send "consent phishing" emails containing malicious links designed to steal users’ access tokens.[4]
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titleblackhat:asia-20 Escaping Virtualized Containers Containers offer speed, performance, and portability, but do they actually contain? While they try their best, the shared kernel is a disturbing attack surface: a mere kernel vulnerability may allow containerized processes to escape and compromise the host. This iss...
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ATT&CK ID:S0251 ATT&CK Technique Name:Zebrocy Zebrocy scans the system and automatically collects files with the following extensions: .doc, .docx, ,.xls, .xlsx, .pdf, .pptx, .rar, .zip, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .tiff, .kum, .tlg, .sbx, .cr, .hse, .hsf, and .lhz.[52][53]
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ATT&CK ID:S0405 ATT&CK Technique Name:Exodus Exodus One checks in with the command and control server using HTTP POST requests.[13]
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ATT&CK ID:S0434 ATT&CK Technique Name:Imminent Monitor Imminent Monitor has the capability to run a cryptocurrency miner on the victim machine.[11]
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ATT&CK ID:S0344 ATT&CK Technique Name:Azorult Azorult can decrypt the payload into memory, create a new suspended process of itself, then inject a decrypted payload to the new process and resume new process execution.[6]
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ATT&CK ID:M1015 ATT&CK Technique Name:Active Directory Configuration Remove vulnerable Group Policy Preferences.[9]
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ATT&CK ID:G0005 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT12 APT12 has attempted to get victims to open malicious Microsoft Word and PDF attachment sent via spearphishing.[10][11]
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ATT&CK ID:S0655 ATT&CK Technique Name:BusyGasper BusyGasper can send an SMS message after the device boots, messages containing logs, messages to adversary-specified numbers with custom content, and can delete all SMS messages on the device.[5]
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title:blackhat:eu-19 Bypassing KPTI Using the Speculative Behavior of the SWAPGS Instruction Speculative-execution based attacks and side-channels are more and more common as disclosures continue to increase scrutiny by researchers in this field. In this talk, we demonstrate a new type of side-channel attack based on s...
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ATT&CK ID:S0281 ATT&CK Technique Name:Dok Dok installs two LaunchAgents to redirect all network traffic with a randomly generated name for each plist file maintaining the format com.random.name.plist.[16][17]
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titleblackhat:us-21 Deepfake Social Engineering: Creating a Framework for Synthetic Media Social Engineering How do you know that you are actually talking to the person you think you are talking to? Deepfake and related synthetic media technologies represent the greatest revolution in social engineering capabilities ov...
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ATT&CK ID:G0081 ATT&CK Technique Name:Tropic Trooper Tropic Trooper has used SSL to connect to C2 servers.[61][62]
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titleblackhat:us-19 Battle of Windows Service: A Silver Bullet to Discover File Privilege Escalation Bugs Automatically System services have always been an important component of Windows 10. In recent years, there have been quite a few privilege escalation vulnerabilities in them.At present, we can effectively automate...
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ATT&CK ID:G0090 ATT&CK Technique Name:WIRTE WIRTE has named a first stage dropper Kaspersky Update Agent in order to appear legitimate.[177]
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ATT&CK ID:T1056.003 ATT&CK Technique Name:Web Portal Capture Adversaries may install code on externally facing portals, such as a VPN login page, to capture and transmit credentials of users who attempt to log into the service. For example, a compromised login page may log provided user credentials before logging the u...
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ATT&CK ID:S0467 ATT&CK Technique Name:TajMahal TajMahal has the ability to use the open source libraries XZip/Xunzip and zlib to compress files.[16]
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ATT&CK ID:S0379 ATT&CK Technique Name:Revenge RAT Revenge RAT uses the Forfiles utility to execute commands on the system.[4]
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ATT&CK ID:M1051 ATT&CK Technique Name:Update Software Perform regular firmware updates to mitigate risks of exploitation and/or abuse.
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ATT&CK ID:S0147 ATT&CK Technique Name:Pteranodon Pteranodon schedules tasks to invoke its components in order to establish persistence.[134][135]
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titleblackhat:asia-19 NetSpectre: A Truly Remote Spectre Variant Modern processors use branch prediction and speculative execution to increase their performance. Since January 2018, with the publication of Spectre attacks, we have seen that speculative execution can be abused to leak confidential information. By induci...
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ATT&CK ID:G1004 ATT&CK Technique Name:LAPSUS$ LAPSUS$ has used compromised credentials and/or session tokens to gain access into a victim's VPN, VDI, RDP, and IAMs.[39]
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ATT&CK ID:G0129 ATT&CK Technique Name:Mustang Panda Mustang Panda has embedded VBScript components in LNK files to download additional files and automate collection.[98][99][100]
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ATT&CK ID:G0050 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT32 APT32 has used malicious links to direct users to web pages designed to harvest credentials.[8]
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ATT&CK ID:G0064 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT33 APT33 has sent spearphishing emails containing links to .hta files.[20][21]
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ATT&CK ID:S0498 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cryptoistic Cryptoistic has the ability to send and receive files.[129]
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titleblackhat:us-19 PeriScope: An Effective Probing and Fuzzing Framework for the Hardware-OS Boundary The OS kernel is an attractive target for remote attackers. If compromised, the kernel gives adversaries full system access, including the ability to install rootkits, extract sensitive information, and perform other ...
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title:botconf2017 Malpedia: A Collaborative Effort to Inventorize the Malware Landscape In this paper, we introduce Malpedia, our take on a collaborative platform for the curation of a coherent corpus of cleanly labeled, unpacked malware samples. Illustrating one of the use cases for this data set, we provide a compara...
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ATT&CK ID:S0381 ATT&CK Technique Name:FlawedAmmyy FlawedAmmyy will attempt to detect anti-virus products during the initial infection.[44]
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ATT&CK ID:S0635 ATT&CK Technique Name:BoomBox BoomBox can enumerate the username on a compromised host.[28]
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ATT&CK ID:S0089 ATT&CK Technique Name:BlackEnergy BlackEnergy has used a plug-in to gather credentials stored in files on the host by various software programs, including The Bat! email client, Outlook, and Windows Credential Store.[12][13]
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ATT&CK ID:M1042 ATT&CK Technique Name:Disable or Remove Feature or Program Consider disabling Microsoft Office macros/active content to prevent the execution of malicious payloads in documents [26], though this setting may not mitigate the Forced Authentication use for this technique.
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title:botconf2013 Spam and All Things Salty: Spambot v2013 This presentation will discuss our research on a threat that involves the massive attacks on WordPress, Joomla and Drupal sites and where they attempt to test the waters on a new spamming cycle. This routine involves different forms of web threats working indep...
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ATT&CK ID:S0689 ATT&CK Technique Name:WhisperGate WhisperGate's downloader can reverse its third stage file bytes and reflectively load the file as a .NET assembly.[22]
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ATT&CK ID:G0065 ATT&CK Technique Name:Leviathan Leviathan has sent spearphishing emails with links, often using a fraudulent lookalike domain and stolen branding.[64][65]
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ATT&CK ID:S1064 ATT&CK Technique Name:SVCReady SVCReady has the ability to determine if its runtime environment is virtualized.[55]
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ATT&CK ID:S0485 ATT&CK Technique Name:Mandrake Mandrake can obtain a list of installed applications.[19]
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ATT&CK ID:S0525 ATT&CK Technique Name:Android/AdDisplay.Ashas Android/AdDisplay.Ashas has hidden the C2 server address using base-64 encoding. [3]
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ATT&CK ID:G0065 ATT&CK Technique Name:Leviathan Leviathan has used an uploader known as LUNCHMONEY that can exfiltrate files to Dropbox.[16][17]
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ATT&CK ID:S0559 ATT&CK Technique Name:SUNBURST SUNBURST removed HTTP proxy registry values to clean up traces of execution.[23]
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titleblackhat:us-18 No Royal Road … Notes on Dangerous Game Attribution fatigue is real. We are 20 years past Moonlight Maze, 15 years past Titan Rain, and a decade past the formation of NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre in Estonia. These recent ten years have seen the public dumping of stolen nation-state toolch...
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ATT&CK ID:G0096 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT41 APT41 used a malware variant called GOODLUCK to modify the registry in order to steal credentials.[13][14]
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ATT&CK ID:S0663 ATT&CK Technique Name:SysUpdate SysUpdate can create a service to establish persistence.[86]
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ATT&CK ID:T1053.002 ATT&CK Technique Name:At Adversaries may abuse the at utility to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code. The at utility exists as an executable within Windows, Linux, and macOS for scheduling tasks at a specified time and date. Although deprecated in favor of Sc...
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ATT&CK ID:M1018 ATT&CK Technique Name:User Account Management Use of Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) systems will limit actions users can perform and provide a history of user actions to detect unauthorized use and abuse. Ensure least privilege principles are applied to user accounts and groups so t...
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ATT&CK ID:M1029 ATT&CK Technique Name:Remote Data Storage If the application deployment system can be configured to deploy only signed binaries, then ensure that the trusted signing certificates are not co-located with the application deployment system and are instead located on a system that cannot be accessed remotel...
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ATT&CK ID:G0059 ATT&CK Technique Name:Magic Hound Magic Hound malware has communicated with its C2 server over TCP ports 4443 and 10151 using HTTP.[22][23]
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ATT&CK ID:G0108 ATT&CK Technique Name:Blue Mockingbird Blue Mockingbird has gained initial access by exploiting CVE-2019-18935, a vulnerability within Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX.[20]
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ATT&CK ID:S0338 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cobian RAT Cobian RAT can launch a remote command shell interface for executing commands.[85]
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ATT&CK ID:S0154 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike can identify targets by querying account groups on a domain contoller.[9]
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title:blackhat:us-19 Attacking Electric Motors for Fun and Profit Electric motors (EMs) account for more than 40 percent of annual global electricity consumption and an estimated market size of $214 Billion by 2025. They drive autonomous vehicles and transportation systems, precisely control robotic movements in indust...
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ATT&CK ID:S0534 ATT&CK Technique Name:Bazar Bazar can inject into a target process including Svchost, Explorer, and cmd using process hollowing.[12][13]
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ATT&CK ID:S0559 ATT&CK Technique Name:SUNBURST SUNBURST delivered different payloads, including TEARDROP in at least one instance.[419]
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ATT&CK ID:T1481.001 ATT&CK Technique Name:Dead Drop Resolver Adversaries may use an existing, legitimate external Web service to host information that points to additional command and control (C2) infrastructure. Adversaries may post content, known as a dead drop resolver, on Web services with embedded (and often obfus...
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ATT&CK ID:S0482 ATT&CK Technique Name:Bundlore Bundlore can change browser security settings to enable extensions to be installed. Bundlore uses the pkill cfprefsd command to prevent users from inspecting processes.[18][19]
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ATT&CK ID:G0093 ATT&CK Technique Name:GALLIUM GALLIUM created high-privileged domain user accounts to maintain access to victim networks.[3][4]
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title:blackhat:us-20 The Paramedic's Guide to Surviving Cybersecurity The security world is fraught with cases of mental health issues, burnout, substance abuse, and even suicide. We live in a world of threats and responses that trigger the deepest parts of our psyche; with the barriers between "online" and the physica...
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ATT&CK ID:S0518 ATT&CK Technique Name:PolyglotDuke PolyglotDuke has has used HTTP GET requests in C2 communications.[120]
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ATT&CK ID:S0198 ATT&CK Technique Name:NETWIRE NETWIRE can persist via startup options for Login items.[15]
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ATT&CK ID:M1029 ATT&CK Technique Name:Remote Data Storage Encryption and off-system storage of sensitive information may be one way to mitigate collection of files, but may not stop an adversary from acquiring the information if an intrusion persists over a long period of time and the adversary is able to discover and ...
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ATT&CK ID:T1616 ATT&CK Technique Name:Call Control Adversaries may make, forward, or block phone calls without user authorization. This could be used for adversary goals such as audio surveillance, blocking or forwarding calls from the device owner, or C2 communication.
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ATT&CK ID:G0107 ATT&CK Technique Name:Whitefly Whitefly has the ability to download additional tools from the C2.[476]
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ATT&CK ID:S0661 ATT&CK Technique Name:FoggyWeb FoggyWeb can configure custom listeners to passively monitor all incoming HTTP GET and POST requests sent to the AD FS server from the intranet/internet and intercept HTTP requests that match the custom URI patterns defined by the actor.[15]
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ATT&CK ID:S0467 ATT&CK Technique Name:TajMahal TajMahal has the ability to inject the LoadLibrary call template DLL into running processes.[18]
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titleblackhat:us-23 HARry Parser and the Cursed Tracker: Breaking the Spell of Online Data Collection Embark on a thrilling journey to uncover the hidden secrets of online tracking and data collection by advertisers, data brokers, and tech giants. Welcome to the dark and creepy world of online tracking! Advertisers and...
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ATT&CK ID:T1003.007 ATT&CK Technique Name:Proc Filesystem Adversaries may gather credentials from the proc filesystem or /proc. The proc filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem used as an interface to kernel data structures for Linux based systems managing virtual memory. For each process, the /proc/<PID>/maps file shows how...
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ATT&CK ID:G0121 ATT&CK Technique Name:Sidewinder Sidewinder has used HTTP in C2 communications.[302][303][304]
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title:blackhat:eu-21 How Your E-book Might Be Reading You: Exploiting EPUB Reading Systems In recent years, global e-book sales have shot through the roof and e-book reading applications have sprouted like mushrooms. EPUB, the most popular open e-book format, is supported by free applications on virtually any device, r...
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ATT&CK ID:S0531 ATT&CK Technique Name:Grandoreiro Grandoreiro has used compromised websites and Google Ads to bait victims into downloading its installer.[29][30]
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ATT&CK ID:S0081 ATT&CK Technique Name:Elise Elise executes net user after initial communication is made to the remote server.[13]
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ATT&CK ID:S0649 ATT&CK Technique Name:SMOKEDHAM SMOKEDHAM has used Powershell to download UltraVNC and Ngrok from third-party file sharing sites.[418]
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ATT&CK ID:T1591 ATT&CK Technique Name:Gather Victim Org Information Adversaries may gather information about the victim's organization that can be used during targeting. Information about an organization may include a variety of details, including the names of divisions/departments, specifics of business operations, as...
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ATT&CK ID:S1037 ATT&CK Technique Name:STARWHALE STARWHALE can collect data from an infected local host.[174]
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ATT&CK ID:G0100 ATT&CK Technique Name:Inception Inception used chains of compromised routers to proxy C2 communications between them and cloud service providers.[12]
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