Summiting the Pyramid v3.0.0¶
Summiting the Pyramid is a research project focused on engineering cyber analytics to make adversary evasion more difficult. This project is created and maintained by the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense in futherance of our mission to advance the state of the art and the state of the practice in threat-informed defense globally.
Important
What’s New In V3:
In version 3.0, we updated and improved the project in the following ways!
Defined a framework for deriving malicious intent for ambiguous techniques.
Identified a method to employ co-occuring techniques to support chained analytic development.
Developed a context-based methodology for deriving malicious intent when engineering robust analytics with lower false positive rates.
Contents
- Overview
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Summiting Levels
- Level 5: Core to Sub-Technique or Technique
- Level 4: Core to Some Implementations of (Sub-)Technique
- Level 3: Core to Pre-Existing Tools or Inside Boundary
- Level 2: Core to Adversary-Brought Tool or Outside Boundary
- Level 1: Ephemeral Values
- Column A: Application
- Column U: User-Mode
- Column K: Kernel-Mode
- Column P: Payload Visibility
- Column H: Header Visibility
- Observables Quick Search
- Combining Observables
- Context to Determine Intent
- Chaining Analytics
- Example Mappings
- How to Score Resistance to Adversary Evasion Over Time
- Analytics Repository
- Access Token Abuse
- ADFind
- Archive Collected Data
- Domain Account Discovery
- Executable (EXE) File Download from a WebDAV Server
- File Creation Date Changed to Another Year
- File & Directory Discovery
- Link (LNK) File Download Containing a WebDAV UNC Hyperlink
- LSASS Memory
- Remote Registry Management Using Reg Utility
- Service Registry Permissions Weakness Check
- Scheduled Task/Job
- Zeek DCE-RPC MITRE BZAR Execution
- Components of a Robust Detection
- How to Build a Robust Detection
- Detection Decomposition Diagram (D3)
- Changelog
Notice¶
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