Adversaries may buy, lease, or rent infrastructure that can be used during targeting. A wide variety of infrastructure exists for hosting and orchestrating adversary operations. Infrastructure solutions include physical or cloud servers, domains, and third-party web services.(Citation: TrendmicroHideoutsLease) Additionally, botnets are available for rent or purchase.
Use of these infrastructure solutions allows an adversary to stage, launch, and execute an operation. Solutions may help adversary operations blend in with traffic that is seen as normal, such as contact to third-party web services. Depending on the implementation, adversaries may use infrastructure that makes it difficult to physically tie back to them as well as utilize infrastructure that can be rapidly provisioned, modified, and shut down.
View in MITRE ATT&CK®| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| action.hacking.variety.Unknown | Unknown | related-to | T1583 | Acquire Infrastructure |
| action.malware.vector.Web application - download | Web via user-executed or downloaded content. Child of 'Web application'. | related-to | T1583 | Acquire Infrastructure |
| Technique ID | Technique Name | Number of Mappings |
|---|---|---|
| T1583.005 | Botnet | 4 |
| T1583.002 | DNS Server | 4 |
| T1583.001 | Domains | 4 |
| T1583.004 | Server | 4 |
| T1583.003 | Virtual Private Server | 4 |
| T1583.006 | Web Services | 6 |