Adversaries may attempt to manipulate features of their artifacts to make them appear legitimate or benign to users and/or security tools. Masquerading occurs when the name or location of an object, legitimate or malicious, is manipulated or abused for the sake of evading defenses and observation. This may include manipulating file metadata, tricking users into misidentifying the file type, and giving legitimate task or service names.
Renaming abusable system utilities to evade security monitoring is also a form of Masquerading.(Citation: LOLBAS Main Site)
View in MITRE ATT&CK®| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| CIS-13.7 | Deploy a Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Solution | mitigates | T1036 | Masquerading |
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Host intrusion prevention systems can identify and prevent execution of potentially malicious files, including files whose signatures do not match their apparent file type.
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| CIS-9.7 | Deploy and Maintain Email Server Anti-Malware Protections | mitigates | T1036 | Masquerading |
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Anti-malware analysis can identify malicious attachments whose content, signature, or behavior conflicts with their apparent name or file type.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| google_secops | Google Security Operations | technique_scores | T1036 | Masquerading |
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Google Security Operations is able to trigger an alert based on Windows starting uncommon processes (e.g., Detects Winword starting uncommon sub process MicroScMgmt.exe used for CVE-2015-1641).
This technique was scored as minimal based on low or uncertain detection coverage factor.
https://github.com/chronicle/detection-rules/blob/783e0e5947774785db1c55041b70176deeca6f46/soc_prime_rules/proactive_exploit_detection/process_creation/exploit_for_cve_2015_1641.yaral
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