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T1001.002 Steganography

Adversaries may use steganographic techniques to hide command and control traffic to make detection efforts more difficult. Steganographic techniques can be used to hide data in digital messages that are transferred between systems. This hidden information can be used for command and control of compromised systems. In some cases, the passing of files embedded using steganography, such as image or document files, can be used for command and control.

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CRI Profile Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
DE.AE-02.01 Event analysis and detection Mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
Comments
This diagnostic statement provides for implementation of methods to block similar future attacks via security tools such as antivirus and IDS/IPS to provide protection against threats and exploitation attempts.
References
    DE.CM-01.01 Intrusion detection and prevention Mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
    Comments
    Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware can be used to mitigate some obfuscation activity at the network level.
    References
      PR.IR-01.03 Network communications integrity and availability Mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
      Comments
      This diagnostic statement protects against Steganography through the use of secure network configurations, architecture, implementations of zero trust architecture, and segmentation.
      References

        NIST 800-53 Mappings

        Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
        CA-07 Continuous Monitoring mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
        CM-06 Configuration Settings mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
        SI-03 Malicious Code Protection mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
        CM-02 Baseline Configuration mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
        SI-04 System Monitoring mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
        AC-04 Information Flow Enforcement mitigates T1001.002 Steganography
        SC-07 Boundary Protection mitigates T1001.002 Steganography

        VERIS Mappings

        Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
        action.hacking.variety.Other Other related-to T1001.002 Steganography
        action.malware.variety.Downloader Downloader (pull updates or other malware) related-to T1001.002 Steganography
        action.malware.vector.Email link Email via embedded link. Child of 'Email' related-to T1001.002 Steganography
        action.social.variety.Phishing Any type of *ishing. Phishing always involves getting data from the victim. Phishing usually has some element of pretexting, but often it doesn’t rise to the level of an invented scenario. E.g. A fake google login page isn’t really pretexting. related-to T1001.002 Steganography
        action.social.vector.Email Email related-to T1001.002 Steganography
        action.social.vector.Social media Social media or networking related-to T1001.002 Steganography