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T1001 · command-and-control · 2 actors · 0 correlated reports

Data Obfuscation

Adversaries may obfuscate command and control traffic to make it more difficult to detect. Command and control (C2) communications are hidden (but not necessarily encrypted) in an attempt to make the content more difficult to discover or decipher and to make the communication less conspicuous and hide commands from being seen. This encompasses many methods, such as adding junk data to protocol traffic, using steganography, or impersonating legitimate protocols.

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Detection logic

Analyze network data for uncommon data flows (e.g., a client sending significantly more data than it receives from a server). Processes utilizing the network that do not normally have network communication or have never been seen before are suspicious. Analyze packet contents to detect communications that do not follow the expected protocol behavior for the port that is being used.

Observed actors

Correlated CTI and IR reports

Cyber Knowledge context

Use these routes to move from the ATT&CK behavior into explanation, implementation, evidence handling, validation, and defensive operations. Relevance is generated from explicit identifiers/names and governed topic mappings; it is not attribution evidence.

MITRE mitigations

M1031 · Network Intrusion Prevention

Use intrusion detection signatures to block traffic at network boundaries.

MITRE mitigation source

MITRE detection strategies and analytics

DET0053 · Detect Obfuscated C2 via Network Traffic Analysis
  • AN0144 · Analytic 0144 — Detects excessive outbound traffic to remote host over HTTP(S) from uncommon or previously unseen processes.
  • AN0145 · Analytic 0145 — Identifies custom or previously unseen userland processes initiating high-volume HTTP connections with low response volume.
  • AN0146 · Analytic 0146 — Flags unexpected user applications initiating long-lived HTTP(S) sessions with irregular traffic patterns.
MITRE detection source

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