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T1496 Resource Hijacking Mappings

Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability.

Resource hijacking may take a number of different forms. For example, adversaries may:

  • Leverage compute resources in order to mine cryptocurrency
  • Sell network bandwidth to proxy networks
  • Generate SMS traffic for profit
  • Abuse cloud-based messaging services to send large quantities of spam messages

In some cases, adversaries may leverage multiple types of Resource Hijacking at once.(Citation: Sysdig Cryptojacking Proxyjacking 2023)

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Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name
amazon_guardduty Amazon GuardDuty technique_scores T1496 Resource Hijacking
aws_cloudwatch AWS CloudWatch technique_scores T1496 Resource Hijacking
aws_config AWS Config technique_scores T1496 Resource Hijacking
aws_iot_device_defender AWS IoT Device Defender technique_scores T1496 Resource Hijacking