Adversaries may use an existing, legitimate external Web service to exfiltrate data rather than their primary command and control channel. Popular Web services acting as an exfiltration mechanism may give a significant amount of cover due to the likelihood that hosts within a network are already communicating with them prior to compromise. Firewall rules may also already exist to permit traffic to these services.
Web service providers also commonly use SSL/TLS encryption, giving adversaries an added level of protection.
View in MITRE ATT&CK®Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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AC-16 | Security and Privacy Attributes | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
AC-02 | Account Management | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
AC-20 | Use of External Systems | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
AC-23 | Data Mining Protection | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
AC-03 | Access Enforcement | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
AC-04 | Information Flow Enforcement | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
AC-06 | Least Privilege | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
CA-03 | Information Exchange | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
CA-07 | Continuous Monitoring | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SA-08 | Security and Privacy Engineering Principles | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SA-09 | External System Services | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SC-28 | Protection of Information at Rest | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SC-31 | Covert Channel Analysis | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SC-07 | Boundary Protection | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SI-03 | Malicious Code Protection | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SI-04 | System Monitoring | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
SR-04 | Provenance | Protects | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service | |
PUR-IP-E5 | Information Protection | Technique Scores | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service |
Comments
Defender for Cloud Apps file policies allow you to enforce a wide range of automated processes. Policies can be set to provide Information Protection, including continuous compliance scans, legal eDiscovery tasks, and DLP for sensitive content shared publicly.
Information Protection Protects from Exfiltration Over Web Service attacks due to it preventing users from uploading unprotected data to the cloud, by using the Defender for Cloud Apps session controls.
License Requirements:
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 plan 1 and plan 2
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DEF-SecScore-E3 | Secure Score | Technique Scores | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service |
Comments
Microsoft Secure Score is a measurement of an organization's security posture, with a higher number indicating more recommended actions taken. It can be found at Microsoft Secure Score in the Microsoft Defender portal.
Following the Secure Score recommendations can protect your organization from threats. From a centralized dashboard in the Microsoft Defender portal, organizations can monitor and work on the security of their Microsoft 365 identities, apps, and devices. Your score is updated in real time to reflect the information presented in the visualizations and recommended action pages. Secure Score also syncs daily to receive system data about your achieved points for each action.
To help you find the information you need more quickly, Microsoft recommended actions are organized into groups:
Identity (Microsoft Entra accounts & roles)
Device (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, known as Microsoft Secure Score for Devices)
Apps (email and cloud apps, including Office 365 and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps)
Data (through Microsoft Information Protection)
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DEF-AIR-E5 | Automated Investigation and Response | Technique Scores | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service |
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 includes powerful automated investigation and response (AIR) capabilities that can save your security operations team time and effort. As alerts are triggered, it's up to your security operations team to review, prioritize, and respond to those alerts. Keeping up with the volume of incoming alerts can be overwhelming. Automating some of those tasks can help.
AIR enables your security operations team to operate more efficiently and effectively. AIR capabilities include automated investigation processes in response to well-known threats that exist today. Appropriate remediation actions await approval, enabling your security operations team to respond effectively to detected threats. With AIR, your security operations team can focus on higher-priority tasks without losing sight of important alerts that are triggered. Examples include: Soft delete email messages or clusters, Block URL (time-of-click), Turn off external mail forwarding, Turn off delegation, etc.
Required licenses
E5 or Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 licenses.
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DO365-ATH-E5 | Advanced Threat Hunting | Technique Scores | T1567 | Exfiltration Over Web Service |
Comments
Advanced hunting is a query-based threat hunting tool that lets you explore up to 30 days of raw data. Advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR allows you to proactively hunt for threats across: Devices managed by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Emails processed by Microsoft 365, Cloud app activities, authentication events, and domain controller activities. With this level of visibility, you can quickly hunt for threats that traverse sections of your network, including sophisticated intrusions that arrive on email or the web, elevate local privileges, acquire privileged domain credentials, and move laterally to across your devices. Advanced hunting supports two modes, guided and advanced. Users use advanced mode if they are comfortable using Kusto Query Language (KQL) to create queries from scratch.
Advanced Threat Hunting Detects Exfiltration Over Web Service attacks due to the DeviceNetworkEvents table in the advanced hunting schema which contains information about network connections and related events which monitors for newly constructed network connections.
License Requirements:
Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 plan 2
References
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Technique ID | Technique Name | Number of Mappings |
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T1567.004 | Exfiltration Over Webhook | 6 |
T1567.001 | Exfiltration to Code Repository | 3 |
T1567.003 | Exfiltration to Text Storage Sites | 3 |
T1567.002 | Exfiltration to Cloud Storage | 4 |