Adversaries may gather information about the victim's identity that can be used during targeting. Information about identities may include a variety of details, including personal data (ex: employee names, email addresses, security question responses, etc.) as well as sensitive details such as credentials or multi-factor authentication (MFA) configurations.
Adversaries may gather this information in various ways, such as direct elicitation via Phishing for Information. Information about users could also be enumerated via other active means (i.e. Active Scanning) such as probing and analyzing responses from authentication services that may reveal valid usernames in a system or permitted MFA /methods associated with those usernames.(Citation: GrimBlog UsernameEnum)(Citation: Obsidian SSPR Abuse 2023) Information about victims may also be exposed to adversaries via online or other accessible data sets (ex: Social Media or Search Victim-Owned Websites).(Citation: OPM Leak)(Citation: Register Deloitte)(Citation: Register Uber)(Citation: Detectify Slack Tokens)(Citation: Forbes GitHub Creds)(Citation: GitHub truffleHog)(Citation: GitHub Gitrob)(Citation: CNET Leaks)
Gathering this information may reveal opportunities for other forms of reconnaissance (ex: Search Open Websites/Domains or Phishing for Information), establishing operational resources (ex: Compromise Accounts), and/or initial access (ex: Phishing or Valid Accounts).
View in MITRE ATT&CK®| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| action.hacking.variety.Scan network | Enumerating the state of the network | related-to | T1589 | Gather Victim Identity Information | |
| aws_network_firewall | AWS Network Firewall | technique_scores | T1589 | Gather Victim Identity Information |
Comments
AWS Network Firewall inspects inbound traffic flows and provides outbound traffic filtering. The capability has the ability to pass, drop, or alert on traffic based on the network protocol as well as perform deep packet inspection on the payload. It is given a score of Partial because it only protects against attempts to gather information via scanning that originate from outside the firewall and it does not protect against phishing.
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| aws_security_hub | AWS Security Hub | technique_scores | T1589 | Gather Victim Identity Information |
Comments
AWS Security Hub detects improperly secured data from S3 buckets such as public read and write access that may result in an adversary getting access to information that could be used during targeting. AWS Security Hub provides these detections with the following managed insights.
S3 buckets with public write or read permissions S3 buckets with sensitive data
This is scored as Minimal because S3 only represents one of many available sources of information that an adversary could use for targeting.
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| Technique ID | Technique Name | Number of Mappings |
|---|---|---|
| T1589.002 | Email Addresses | 3 |
| T1589.003 | Employee Names | 3 |
| T1589.001 | Credentials | 3 |