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T1496 Resource Hijacking Mappings

Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems in order to solve resource intensive problems which may impact system and/or hosted service availability.

One common purpose for Resource Hijacking is to validate transactions of cryptocurrency networks and earn virtual currency. Adversaries may consume enough system resources to negatively impact and/or cause affected machines to become unresponsive.(Citation: Kaspersky Lazarus Under The Hood Blog 2017) Servers and cloud-based(Citation: CloudSploit - Unused AWS Regions) systems are common targets because of the high potential for available resources, but user endpoint systems may also be compromised and used for Resource Hijacking and cryptocurrency mining.

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Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
azure_sentinel Azure Sentinel technique_scores T1496 Resource Hijacking
Comments
The following Azure Sentinel Hunting queries can identify potential resource hijacking based on anomolies in access and usage patterns: "Anomalous Resource Creation and related Network Activity", "Creation of an anomalous number of resources". The following Azure Sentinel Analytis queries can identify potential resource hijacking: "Creation of Expensive Computes in Azure" and "Suspicious number of resource creation or deployed" [sic] can identify suspicious outliers in resource quantities requested. "Suspicious Resource deployment" can identify deployments from new, potentially malicious, users. "Process execution frequency anomaly" can identify execution that may indicate hijacking. "DNS events related to mining pools", can identify potential cryptocurrency mining activity.
References
  1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/overview
  2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/hunting
azure_defender_for_app_service Azure Defender for App Service technique_scores T1496 Resource Hijacking
Comments
This control detects file downloads associated with digital currency mining as well as host data related to process and command execution associated with mining. It also includes fileless attack detection, which specifically targets crypto mining activity. Temporal factor is unknown.
References
  1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/alerts-reference
  2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/defender-for-app-service-introduction
  3. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/
  4. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/defender-for-servers-introduction
cloud_app_security_policies Cloud App Security Policies technique_scores T1496 Resource Hijacking
Comments
This control can identify some behaviors that are potential instances of resource hijacking. Relevant alerts include "Multiple VM Creation activities" and "Suspicious creation activity for cloud region".
References
  1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/policies-cloud-discovery
  2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/policies-information-protection
  3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/investigate-anomaly-alerts