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Authors: Christopher A. Korban Douglas P. Miller Adam Pennington Cody B. Thomas September 2017 MT R 1 7 04 4 6 MIT R E T E C H N IC A L R E P OR T Dept. No.: J83L Project No.: 0717MM09-AA The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this report are those…
Added Mon 6 Apr
Cross-Platform Detection of Data Transfer to Cloud Account, Detection Strategy DET0573
Detects snapshot sharing, backup exports, or data object transfers from victim-owned cloud accounts to other cloud identities within the same provider (e.g., AWS, Azure) using snapshot sharing, S3 bucket policy updates, or SAS URI generation. Log Sources Data…
Encrypted Channel, Technique T1573 - Enterprise
APT29 has used multiple layers of encryption within malware to protect C2 communication.[1] G1002 BITTER BITTER has encrypted their C2 communications.[2] S0631 Chaes Chaes has used encryption for its C2 channel.[3] S0498 Cryptoistic Cryptoistic can engage in…
State-sponsoredMalwareBotnets and DDoS
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Time Providers, Sub-technique T1547.003 - Enterprise
Adversaries may abuse time providers to execute DLLs when the system boots. The Windows Time service (W32Time) enables time synchronization across and within domains.[1] W32Time time providers are responsible for retrieving time stamps from hardware/network…
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: LSASS Driver, Sub-technique T1547.008 - Enterprise
Adversaries may modify or add LSASS drivers to obtain persistence on compromised systems. The Windows security subsystem is a set of components that manage and enforce the security policy for a computer or domain. The Local Security Authority (LSA) is the…
Encrypted Channel, Technique T1573 - Enterprise
APT29 has used multiple layers of encryption within malware to protect C2 communication.[1] G1002 BITTER BITTER has encrypted their C2 communications.[2] S0631 Chaes Chaes has used encryption for its C2 channel.[3] S0498 Cryptoistic Cryptoistic can engage in…
State-sponsoredMalwareBotnets and DDoS
Patchwork, Hangover Group, Dropping Elephant, Chinastrats, MONSOON, Operation Hangover, Group G0040
Enterprise T1548 .002 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control Patchwork bypassed User Access Control (UAC).[1] Enterprise T1560 Archive Collected Data Patchwork encrypted the collected files' path with AES and then encoded them with…
Behavioral Detection of User Discovery via Local and Remote Enumeration, Detection Strategy DET0093
Adversary launches built-in system tools (e.g., whoami, query user, net user) or scripts that enumerate user account information via local execution or remote API queries (e.g., WMI, PowerShell). Log Sources Data Component Name Channel Process Creation…
Server Software Component: Web Shell, Sub-technique T1505.003 - Enterprise
During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team deployed the Neo-REGEORG webshell on an internet-facing server. [3] G1030 Agrius Agrius typically deploys a variant of the ASPXSpy web shell following initial access via exploitation.[4] G0007 APT28…
State-sponsoredVulnerabilities
Detection of Remote Access Software, Detection Strategy DET0624
Privacy Policy Storage Preferences Targeted Advertising Personalization Analytics Source: https://attack.mitre.org/detectionstrategies/DET0624#AN1689
Command and Scripting Interpreter: AppleScript, Sub-technique T1059.002 - Enterprise
Adversaries may abuse AppleScript for execution. AppleScript is a macOS scripting language designed to control applications and parts of the OS via inter-application messages called AppleEvents.[1] These AppleEvent messages can be sent independently or easily…
Authorization Enforcement, Mitigation M0800 - ICS
Restrict configurations changes and firmware updating abilities to only authorized individuals. ICS T0858 Change Operating Mode All field controllers should restrict operating mode changes to only required authenticated users (e.g., engineers, field…
Event Triggered Execution: LC_LOAD_DYLIB Addition, Sub-technique T1546.006 - Enterprise
Adversaries may establish persistence by executing malicious content triggered by the execution of tainted binaries. Mach-O binaries have a series of headers that are used to perform certain operations when a binary is loaded. The LC_LOAD_DYLIB header in a…
System Binary Proxy Execution: Control Panel, Sub-technique T1218.002 - Enterprise
Adversaries may abuse control.exe to proxy execution of malicious payloads. The Windows Control Panel process binary (control.exe) handles execution of Control Panel items, which are utilities that allow users to view and adjust computer settings. Control…
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Security Support Provider, Sub-technique T1547.005 - Enterprise
Adversaries may abuse security support providers (SSPs) to execute DLLs when the system boots. Windows SSP DLLs are loaded into the Local Security Authority (LSA) process at system start. Once loaded into the LSA, SSP DLLs have access to encrypted and…
Input Capture: GUI Input Capture, Sub-technique T1056.002 - Enterprise
Adversaries may mimic common operating system GUI components to prompt users for credentials with a seemingly legitimate prompt. When programs are executed that need additional privileges than are present in the current user context, it is common for the…
Behavioral Detection of Obfuscated Files or Information, Detection Strategy DET0378
Correlates script execution or suspicious parent processes with creation or modification of encoded, compressed, or encrypted file formats (e.g., .zip, .7z, .enc) and abnormal command-line syntax or PowerShell obfuscation. Log Sources Data Component Name…
Software Discovery: Security Software Discovery, Sub-technique T1518.001 - Enterprise
ABK has the ability to identify the installed anti-virus product on the compromised host.[1] S1028 Action RAT Action RAT can identify AV products on an infected host using the following command: cmd.exe WMIC /Node:localhost /Namespace:\\root\SecurityCenter2…
State-sponsoredMalware
Modify Registry, Technique T1112 - Enterprise
During the 2015 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team modified in-registry Internet settings to lower internet security before launching rundll32.exe , which in-turn launches the malware and communicates with C2 servers over the Internet. [11]. S0677…
State-sponsored
POWRUNER, Software S0184
POWRUNER may collect user account information by running net user /domain or a series of other commands on a victim.[1] Enterprise T1071 .001 Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols POWRUNER can use HTTP for C2 communications.[1][2] .004 Application Layer…
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