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ATT&CK ID:G0095 ATT&CK Technique Name:Machete Machete has created scheduled tasks to maintain Machete's persistence.[100]
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ATT&CK ID:S0340 ATT&CK Technique Name:Octopus Octopus achieved persistence by placing a malicious executable in the startup directory and has added the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key to the Registry.[185]
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ATT&CK ID:G1001 ATT&CK Technique Name:HEXANE HEXANE has enumerated programs installed on an infected machine.[10]
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ATT&CK ID:S0496 ATT&CK Technique Name:REvil REvil has used encrypted strings and configuration files.[273][274][275][276][277][278][279]
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ATT&CK ID:S0660 ATT&CK Technique Name:Clambling Clambling can store a file named mpsvc.dll, which opens a malicious mpsvc.mui file, in the same folder as the legitimate Microsoft executable MsMpEng.exe to gain execution.[17][18]
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ATT&CK ID:S0588 ATT&CK Technique Name:GoldMax GoldMax has set an execution trigger date and time, stored as an ASCII Unix/Epoch time value.[25]
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ATT&CK ID:T1636.004 ATT&CK Technique Name:SMS Messages Adversaries may utilize standard operating system APIs to gather SMS messages. On Android, this can be accomplished using the SMS Content Provider. iOS provides no standard API to access SMS messages.
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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 secure LSASS and prevent credential stealing. [21]
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ATT&CK ID:S0447 ATT&CK Technique Name:Lokibot Lokibot's second stage DLL has set a timer using "timeSetEvent" to schedule its next execution.[5]
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titleblackhat:us-22 Trust Dies in Darkness: Shedding Light on Samsung's TrustZone Keymaster Design ARM-based Android smartphones rely on the TrustZone hardware support for a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to implement security-sensitive functions. The TEE runs a separate, isolated, TrustZone Operating System (TZOS...
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ATT&CK ID:S0198 ATT&CK Technique Name:NETWIRE NETWIRE can inject code into system processes including notepad.exe, svchost.exe, and vbc.exe.[40]
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ATT&CK ID:M1057 ATT&CK Technique Name:Data Loss Prevention Data loss prevention can detect and block sensitive data being sent over unencrypted protocols.
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ATT&CK ID:S0630 ATT&CK Technique Name:Nebulae Nebulae can achieve persistence through a Registry Run key.[174]
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ATT&CK ID:G0060 ATT&CK Technique Name:BRONZE BUTLER BRONZE BUTLER has placed malware on file shares and given it the same name as legitimate documents on the share.[2]
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ATT&CK ID:S0154 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike can spawn processes with alternate PPIDs.[6][7]
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ATT&CK ID:G0077 ATT&CK Technique Name:Leafminer Leafminer used several tools for retrieving login and password information, including LaZagne.[13]
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ATT&CK ID:S0115 ATT&CK Technique Name:Crimson Crimson can decode its encoded PE file prior to execution.[65]
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ATT&CK ID:M1037 ATT&CK Technique Name:Filter Network Traffic VNC defaults to TCP ports 5900 for the server, 5800 for browser access, and 5500 for a viewer in listening mode. Filtering or blocking these ports will inhibit VNC traffic utilizing default ports.
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ATT&CK ID:S0449 ATT&CK Technique Name:Maze Maze has created scheduled tasks using name variants such as "Windows Update Security", "Windows Update Security Patches", and "Google Chrome Security Update", to launch Maze at a specific time.[105]
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ATT&CK ID:G0010 ATT&CK Technique Name:Turla Turla has used tracert to check internet connectivity.[15]
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ATT&CK ID:S0160 ATT&CK Technique Name:certutil certutil has been used to decode binaries hidden inside certificate files as Base64 information.[1]
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ATT&CK ID:G0080 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cobalt Group Cobalt Group has used exploits to increase their levels of rights and privileges.[14]
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ATT&CK ID:S0660 ATT&CK Technique Name:Clambling Clambling can deobfuscate its payload prior to execution.[53][54]
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ATT&CK ID:S0128 ATT&CK Technique Name:BADNEWS BADNEWS has a command to download an .exe and use process hollowing to inject it into a new process.[7][8]
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ATT&CK ID:M1018 ATT&CK Technique Name:User Account Management Limit user access to system utilities such as systemctl to only users who have a legitimate need.
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ATT&CK ID:S1062 ATT&CK Technique Name:S.O.V.A. S.O.V.A. has C2 commands to add an infected device to a DDoS pool.[6]
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ATT&CK ID:S1009 ATT&CK Technique Name:Triton Triton is able to read, write and execute code in memory on the safety controller at an arbitrary address within the devices firmware region. This allows the malware to make changes to the running firmware in memory and modify how the device operates. [3]
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ATT&CK ID:T1556.004 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Device Authentication Adversaries may use 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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ATT&CK ID:T1556.004 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Device Authentication Adversaries may use 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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title:blackhat:us-22 A New Trend for the Blue Team - Using a Practical Symbolic Engine to Detect Evasive Forms of Malware/Ransomware Blue Teams and anyone on the defensive side face various challenges when it comes to reverse engineering suspected malware or ransomware binaries, especially ones with obfuscation techniq...
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ATT&CK ID:S0030 ATT&CK Technique Name:Carbanak Carbanak logs key strokes for configured processes and sends them back to the C2 server.[33][34]
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ATT&CK ID:S0419 ATT&CK Technique Name:SimBad SimBad registers for the BOOT_COMPLETED and USER_PRESENT broadcast intents, which allows the software to perform actions after the device is booted and when the user is using the device, respectively.[13]
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ATT&CK ID:S0435 ATT&CK Technique Name:PLEAD PLEAD has the ability to delete files on the compromised host.[125]
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ATT&CK ID:S0163 ATT&CK Technique Name:Janicab Janicab captured audio and sent it out to a C2 server.[18][19]
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ATT&CK ID:M1018 ATT&CK Technique Name:User Account Management An adversary must already have administrator level access on the local system to make full use of this technique; be sure to restrict users and accounts to the least privileges they require.
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ATT&CK ID:G0027 ATT&CK Technique Name:Threat Group-3390 Threat Group-3390 actors use NBTscan to discover vulnerable systems.[230]
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ATT&CK ID:G0065 ATT&CK Technique Name:Leviathan Leviathan has obtained valid accounts to gain initial access.[41][42]
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ATT&CK ID:G0003 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cleaver Cleaver has created fake LinkedIn profiles that included profile photos, details, and connections.[4]
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titleblackhat:us-18 Are You Trading Stocks Securely? Exposing Security Flaws in Trading Technologies With the advent of electronic trading platforms and networks, the exchange of financial securities now is easier and faster than ever; but this comes with inherent risks. Nowadays, not only rich people can invest in the...
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ATT&CK ID:M1021 ATT&CK Technique Name:Restrict Web-Based Content For malicious code served up through ads, adblockers can help prevent that code from executing in the first place.Script blocking extensions can help prevent the execution of JavaScript that may commonly be used during the exploitation process.
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ATT&CK ID:M1018 ATT&CK Technique Name:User Account Management Periodically review user accounts and remove those that are inactive or unnecessary. Limit the ability for user accounts to create additional accounts.
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ATT&CK ID:G0114 ATT&CK Technique Name:Chimera Chimera has used PsExec to deploy beacons on compromised systems.[15]
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title:blackhat:asia-23 Keynote - Preparing the Long Journey for Data Security Data has been regarded as the fifth factor of production, and data security is ranked a high priority by governments across the world. In China, data security-related legislation such as the "Data Security Law" and "Personal Information Prote...
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ATT&CK ID:M1030 ATT&CK Technique Name:Network Segmentation Configure access controls and firewalls to limit access to critical systems and domain controllers. Most cloud environments support separate virtual private cloud (VPC) instances that enable further segmentation of cloud systems.
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ATT&CK ID:C0006 ATT&CK Technique Name:Operation Honeybee During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors used a batch file that modified the COMSysApp service to load a malicious ipnet.dll payload and to load a DLL into the svchost.exe process.[8]
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ATT&CK ID:S0668 ATT&CK Technique Name:TinyTurla TinyTurla can query the Registry for its configuration information.[95]
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ATT&CK ID:C0022 ATT&CK Technique Name:Operation Dream Job During Operation Dream Job, Lazarus Group used a custom build of open-source command-line dbxcli to exfiltrate stolen data to Dropbox.[20][21]
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ATT&CK ID:S1019 ATT&CK Technique Name:Shark Shark can collect the GUID of a targeted machine.[229][230]
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ATT&CK ID:S0598 ATT&CK Technique Name:P.A.S. Webshell P.A.S. Webshell can issue commands via HTTP POST.[118]
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ATT&CK ID:G0059 ATT&CK Technique Name:Magic Hound Magic Hound has compromised personal email accounts through the use of legitimate credentials and gathered additional victim information.[12]
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ATT&CK ID:S0428 ATT&CK Technique Name:PoetRAT PoetRAT has the ability to overwrite scripts and delete itself if a sandbox environment is detected.[178]
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title:blackhat:us-22 Pwning Cloud Vendors with Untraditional PostgreSQL Vulnerabilities Cloud service providers often provide popular and beloved open-source solutions as multi-tenant managed services. This is a significant power of the cloud - to offer anything as a scalable, managed service. However, these projects w...
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ATT&CK ID:S0461 ATT&CK Technique Name:SDBbot SDBbot has the ability to use the command shell to execute commands on a compromised host.[295]
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ATT&CK ID:G0140 ATT&CK Technique Name:LazyScripter LazyScripter has hosted open-source remote access Trojans used in its operations in GitHub.[14]
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ATT&CK ID:S0599 ATT&CK Technique Name:Kinsing Kinsing was run through a deployed Ubuntu container.[6]
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ATT&CK ID:G0033 ATT&CK Technique Name:Poseidon Group Poseidon Group searches for administrator accounts on both the local victim machine and the network.[32]
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ATT&CK ID:S0298 ATT&CK Technique Name:Xbot Xbot can encrypt the victim's files in external storage (e.g., SD card) and then request a PayPal cash card as ransom.[3]
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ATT&CK ID:G0136 ATT&CK Technique Name:IndigoZebra IndigoZebra sent spearphishing emails containing malicious attachments that urged recipients to review modifications in the file which would trigger the attack.[115]
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ATT&CK ID:T1608.005 ATT&CK Technique Name:Link Target Adversaries may put in place resources that are referenced by a link that can be used during targeting. An adversary may rely upon a user clicking a malicious link in order to divulge information (including credentials) or to gain execution, as in Malicious Link. Li...
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ATT&CK ID:T1556.001 ATT&CK Technique Name:Domain Controller Authentication Adversaries may patch the authentication process on a domain controller to bypass the typical authentication mechanisms and enable access to accounts.
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ATT&CK ID:G0016 ATT&CK Technique Name:APT29 APT29 has edited the Microsoft.IdentityServer.Servicehost.exe.config file to load a malicious DLL into the AD FS process, thereby enabling persistent access to any service federated with AD FS for a user with a specified User Principal Name.[4]
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ATT&CK ID:T1608.001 ATT&CK Technique Name:Upload Malware Adversaries may upload malware to third-party or adversary controlled infrastructure to make it accessible during targeting. Malicious software can include payloads, droppers, post-compromise tools, backdoors, and a variety of other malicious content. Adversaries...
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ATT&CK ID:T1398 ATT&CK Technique Name:Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts Adversaries may use scripts automatically executed at boot or logon initialization to establish persistence. Initialization scripts are part of the underlying operating system and are not accessible to the user unless the device has been rooted ...
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ATT&CK ID:S0070 ATT&CK Technique Name:HTTPBrowser HTTPBrowser's installer contains a malicious file named navlu.dll to decrypt and run the RAT. navlu.dll is also the name of a legitimate Symantec DLL.[72]
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ATT&CK ID:S0603 ATT&CK Technique Name:Stuxnet Stuxnet used WMI with an explorer.exe token to execute on a remote share.[122]
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ATT&CK ID:G0129 ATT&CK Technique Name:Mustang Panda Mustang Panda's custom ORat tool uses a WMI event consumer to maintain persistence.[13]
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ATT&CK ID:S0154 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike can use PsExec to execute a payload on a remote host. It can also use Service Control Manager to start new services.[17][18][19]
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ATT&CK ID:S0089 ATT&CK Technique Name:BlackEnergy BlackEnergy has used Systeminfo to gather the OS version, as well as information on the system configuration, BIOS, the motherboard, and the processor.[60][61]
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ATT&CK ID:S0051 ATT&CK Technique Name:MiniDuke MiniDuke can gather the hostname on a compromised machine.[131]
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title:botconf2013 Spatial Statistics as a Metric for Detecting Botnet C2 Servers Botnets consist of thousands of hosts infected with malware. As these hosts are widely dispersed and usually not physically accessible to botnet owners, a means to communicate with these hosts is needed. Using Command and Control (C2) serv...
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ATT&CK ID:M1047 ATT&CK Technique Name:Audit Use auditing tools capable of detecting file system permissions abuse opportunities on systems within an enterprise and correct them. Toolkits like the PowerSploit framework contain PowerUp modules that can be used to explore systems for service file system permissions weakne...
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ATT&CK ID:S0331 ATT&CK Technique Name:Agent Tesla Agent Tesla can log keystrokes on the victim’s machine.[5][6][7][8][9]
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titleblackhat:asia-22 ExplosION: The Hidden Mines in the Android ION Driver The ION driver is an essential component introduced by Google into the Android kernel to facilitate allocations of device-accessible memory. It has been widely used by vendors for almost 10 years. In addition, almost all untrusted apps can acce...
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ATT&CK ID:G0059 ATT&CK Technique Name:Magic Hound Magic Hound has conducted watering-hole attacks through media and magazine websites.[37]
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ATT&CK ID:G0032 ATT&CK Technique Name:Lazarus Group Lazarus Group has used the Windows API ObtainUserAgentString to obtain the User-Agent from a compromised host to connect to a C2 server.[106] Lazarus Group has also used various, often lesser known, functions to perform various types of Discovery and Process Injection...
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ATT&CK ID:S0154 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike can make tokens from known credentials.[1]
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ATT&CK ID:G0010 ATT&CK Technique Name:Turla Turla RPC backdoors can impersonate or steal process tokens before executing commands.[13]
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title:botconf2019 An Android Botnet Analysis – Shaoye Botnet The action of Shaoye botnet started from June 2017. The peak of attacks was seen in January 2018. TWNCERT (Taiwan National Computer Emergency Response Team) received the intelligence about a DNS hijack from Japan NICT (National Institute of Information and Co...
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ATT&CK ID:S1037 ATT&CK Technique Name:STARWHALE STARWHALE can establish persistence by installing itself in the startup folder, whereas the GO variant has created a HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OutlookM registry key.[251][252]
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ATT&CK ID:S0343 ATT&CK Technique Name:Exaramel for Windows The Exaramel for Windows dropper creates and starts a Windows service named wsmprovav with the description "Windows Check AV" in an apparent attempt to masquerade as a legitimate service.[24]
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ATT&CK ID:S0050 ATT&CK Technique Name:CosmicDuke CosmicDuke searches for Microsoft Outlook data files with extensions .pst and .ost for collection and exfiltration.[6]
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ATT&CK ID:G0035 ATT&CK Technique Name:Dragonfly Dragonfly has used scheduled tasks to automatically log out of created accounts every 8 hours as well as to execute malicious files.[51]
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ATT&CK ID:M1056 ATT&CK Technique Name:Pre-compromise This technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on behaviors performed outside of the scope of enterprise defenses and controls.
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ATT&CK ID:S0687 ATT&CK Technique Name:Cyclops Blink Cyclops Blink has used Tor nodes for C2 traffic.[7]
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ATT&CK ID:C0024 ATT&CK Technique Name:SolarWinds Compromise During the SolarWinds Compromise, APT29 added credentials to OAuth Applications and Service Principals.[10][11]
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ATT&CK ID:M1027 ATT&CK Technique Name:Password Policies Ensure SSH key pairs have strong passwords and refrain from using key-store technologies such as ssh-agent unless they are properly protected.
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ATT&CK ID:T1027.003 ATT&CK Technique Name:Steganography Adversaries may use steganography techniques in order to prevent the detection of hidden information. Steganographic techniques can be used to hide data in digital media such as images, audio tracks, video clips, or text files.
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ATT&CK ID:S0375 ATT&CK Technique Name:Remexi Remexi gathers and exfiltrates keystrokes from the machine.[152]
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ATT&CK ID:S0407 ATT&CK Technique Name:Monokle Monokle queries the device for metadata such as make, model, and power levels.[28]
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ATT&CK ID:M1056 ATT&CK Technique Name:Pre-compromise This technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on behaviors performed outside of the scope of enterprise defenses and controls. Efforts should focus on minimizing the amount and sensitivity of data available to external parties.
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ATT&CK ID:S0692 ATT&CK Technique Name:SILENTTRINITY SILENTTRINITY can use System.DirectoryServices namespace to retrieve domain group information.[28]
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ATT&CK ID:G0032 ATT&CK Technique Name:Lazarus Group Lazarus Group malware SHARPKNOT overwrites and deletes the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the victim's machine and has possessed MBR wiper malware since at least 2009.[17][18]
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ATT&CK ID:S0373 ATT&CK Technique Name:Astaroth Astaroth has used an XOR-based algorithm to encrypt payloads twice with different keys.[39]
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ATT&CK ID:S0407 ATT&CK Technique Name:Monokle Monokle can remount the system partition as read/write to install attacker-specified certificates.[4]
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titleblackhat:us-20 When TLS Hacks You Lots of people try to attack the security of TLS. But, what if we use TLS to attack other things? It's a huge standard, and it turns out that features intended to make TLS fast have also made it useful as an attack vector.Among other things, these features provide a lot of flexibi...
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ATT&CK ID:G0140 ATT&CK Technique Name:LazyScripter LazyScripter has leveraged the BatchEncryption tool to perform advanced batch script obfuscation and encoding techniques.[48]
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ATT&CK ID:T1584.007 ATT&CK Technique Name:Serverless Adversaries may compromise serverless cloud infrastructure, such as Cloudflare Workers or AWS Lambda functions, that can be used during targeting. By utilizing serverless infrastructure, adversaries can make it more difficult to attribute infrastructure used during o...
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ATT&CK ID:M1024 ATT&CK Technique Name:Restrict Registry Permissions Ensure proper permissions are set for Registry hives to prevent users from modifying keys associated with COR_PROFILER.
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ATT&CK ID:S0357 ATT&CK Technique Name:Impacket Impacket modules like ntlmrelayx and smbrelayx can be used in conjunction with Network Sniffing and LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and SMB Relay to gather NetNTLM credentials for Brute Force or relay attacks that can gain code execution.[10]
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ATT&CK ID:M1024 ATT&CK Technique Name:Restrict Registry Permissions Ensure proper permissions are set for Registry hives to prevent users from modifying keys for logon scripts that may lead to persistence.
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