Adversaries may insert, delete, or manipulate data at rest in order to influence external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data.(Citation: FireEye APT38 Oct 2018)(Citation: DOJ Lazarus Sony 2018) By manipulating stored data, adversaries may attempt to affect a business process, organizational understanding, and decision making.
Stored data could include a variety of file formats, such as Office files, databases, stored emails, and custom file formats. The type of modification and the impact it will have depends on the type of data as well as the goals and objectives of the adversary. For complex systems, an adversary would likely need special expertise and possibly access to specialized software related to the system that would typically be gained through a prolonged information gathering campaign in order to have the desired impact.
View in MITRE ATT&CK®| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| PR.DS-01.01 | Data-at-rest protection | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement focuses on protecting data-at-rest by implementing encryption and other security measures such as sandboxing, authentication, segregation, masking, tokenization, and file integrity monitoring.
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| PR.DS-11.01 | Data backup and replication | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement provides protection from adversaries that try to manipulate and/or modify data at rest, which harms the integrity of data. Implementing data backup or disaster recovery plan can be used to restore organizational data that adversaries may have attempted to overwrite. Ensure backups are stored off system and is protected from common methods adversaries may use to gain access and manipulate backups.
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| PR.DS-10.01 | Data-in-use protection | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This Diagnostic Statement describes mitigations related to protecting data-in-use, mentioning encryption, access control methods and authentication. Using encryption for data-in-use, alongside other safeguards such for restricting exfiltration of sensitive data aid with mitigating collection and exfiltration threats.
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| PR.PS-01.06 | Encryption management practices | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement is associated with employing encryption methods to mitigate unauthorized access or theft of data that protect the confidentiality and integrity of data-at-rest, data-in-use, and data-in-transit. To address threats to stored data manipulation, consider encrypting important information to reduce an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
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| PR.PS-01.07 | Cryptographic keys and certificates | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement protects against Stored Data Manipulation through the use of revocation of keys and key management. Employing key protection strategies for key material used for storage of sensitive information, limitations to specific accounts along with access control mechanisms provides protection against stored data manipulation by adversaries.
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| ID.AM-08.03 | Data governance and lifecycle management | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement prevents adversaries from manipulating data at rest. storing data remotely can be used to properly manage data. There may be some similarities to NIST 800-53 SI-12 Information Management and Retention. This may provide mitigation of data access/exfiltration techniques.
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| ID.IM-02.06 | Accurate data recovery | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement highlights the critical importance of implementing remote data storage solutions as a safeguard against potential adversarial attempts to manipulate or conceal stored data (i.e. file formats, databases, stored emails, and custom file formats), which could negatively impact business operations and organizational data integrity.
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| ID.AM-08.05 | Data destruction procedures | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement prevents adversaries from manipulating data at rest. storing data remotely can be used to properly manage data. There may be some similarities to NIST 800-53 SI-12 Information Management and Retention. This may provide mitigation of data access/exfiltration techniques.
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| PR.PS-01.05 | Encryption standards | Mitigates | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This diagnostic statement is associated with employing strong encryption methods to mitigate unauthorized access or theft of data that protect the confidentiality and integrity of data-at-rest, data-in-use, and data-in-transit. To address threats to stored data manipulation, consider encrypting important information to reduce an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| action.hacking.variety.Brute force | Brute force or password guessing attacks. | related-to | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation | |
| action.hacking.variety.Offline cracking | Offline password or key cracking (e.g., rainbow tables, Hashcat, JtR) | related-to | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation | |
| action.malware.variety.Brute force | Brute force attack | related-to | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation | |
| attribute.integrity.variety.Modify data | Modified stored data or content | related-to | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| ai_security_recommendations | Microsoft Defender for Cloud: AI Security Recommendations | technique_scores | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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This control's "Immutable (read-only) root filesystem should be enforced for containers" recommendation can lead to mitigating this sub-technique by preventing modification of the local filesystem.
Likewise this control's recommendations related to using customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest and enabling transparent data encryption for SQL databases can mitigate this sub-technique by reducing an adversary's ability to perform tailored data modifications.
Due to it being a recommendation, its score is capped at Partial.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| cloud_storage | Cloud Storage | technique_scores | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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The cloud service provider's default encryption setting for data stored and written to disk in the cloud may protect against adversary's attempt to manipulate customer data-at-rest. This technique was rated as significant due to the high protect coverage factor.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| amazon_guardduty | Amazon GuardDuty | technique_scores | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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The Impact:S3/MaliciousIPCaller finding type is looking for API calls commonly associated with Impact tactic of techniques where an adversary is trying to manipulate, interrupt, or destroy data within your AWS environment.
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| aws_cloudendure_disaster_recovery | AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery | technique_scores | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery enables the replication and recovery of servers into AWS Cloud. In the event that data on servers is manipulated, AWS CloudEndure can be used to provision an instance of the server from a previous point in time within minutes. As a result, this mapping is given a score of Significant.
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| aws_rds | AWS RDS | technique_scores | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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AWS RDS supports the encryption of database instances using the AES-256 encryption algorithm. This can protect database instances from being modified at rest. Furthermore, AWS RDS supports TLS/SSL connections which protect data from being modified during transit. As a result, this mapping is given a score of Significant.
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| aws_rds | AWS RDS | technique_scores | T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation |
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AWS RDS supports the replication and recovery of database instances. In the event that data is manipulated, AWS RDS can be used to restore the database instance to a previous point in time. As a result, this mapping is given a score of Significant.
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