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T1078 Valid Accounts Mappings

Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of existing accounts as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. Compromised credentials may be used to bypass access controls placed on various resources on systems within the network and may even be used for persistent access to remote systems and externally available services, such as VPNs, Outlook Web Access and remote desktop. Compromised credentials may also grant an adversary increased privilege to specific systems or access to restricted areas of the network. Adversaries may choose not to use malware or tools in conjunction with the legitimate access those credentials provide to make it harder to detect their presence.

The overlap of permissions for local, domain, and cloud accounts across a network of systems is of concern because the adversary may be able to pivot across accounts and systems to reach a high level of access (i.e., domain or enterprise administrator) to bypass access controls set within the enterprise. (Citation: TechNet Credential Theft)

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Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name
cloud_asset_inventory Cloud Asset Inventory technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
identity_aware_proxy Identity Aware Proxy technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
resourcemanager ResourceManager technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
identityplatform IdentityPlatform technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
anthosconfigmanagement AnthosConfigManagement technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
cloud_identity Cloud Identity technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
endpoint_management Endpoint Management technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
chronicle Chronicle technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
policy_intelligence Policy Intelligence technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
vpc_service_controls VPC Service Controls technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
identity_and_access_management Identity and Access Management technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
identity_and_access_management Identity and Access Management technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts
container_registry Container Registry technique_scores T1078 Valid Accounts

ATT&CK Subtechniques

Technique ID Technique Name Number of Mappings
T1078.004 Cloud Accounts 12
T1078.001 Default Accounts 2
T1078.002 Domain Accounts 2
T1078.003 Local Accounts 1