Summiting the Pyramid v2.0.0¶
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 V2:
In version 2.0, we updated and improved the project in the following ways!
Exploring how detection accuracy and robustness relate to each other to create balanced analytics. See: What is a Robust Detection?
Introducing Detection Decomposition Diagrams (D3), a new way to visualize and identify observables which are accurate and resistant to adversary evasion. Checkout some D3 examples here.
New Summiting scoring models! We updated our host-based model to include host-based network events, and created a new network traffic model.
Contents
- Overview
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Model Mapping Pages
- 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 P: Header Visibility
- Observables Quick Search
- Combining Observables
- Example Mappings
- How to Score Resistance to Adversary Evasion Over Time
- Analytics Repository
- Suspicious ADFind
- Scheduled Task/Job
- Service Registry Permissions Weakness Check
- Potential Access Token Abuse
- Executable (EXE) File Download from a WebDAV Server
- Link (LNK) File Download Containing a WebDAV UNC Hyperlink
- Remote Registry Management Using Reg Utility
- File Creation Date Changed to Another Year
- Zeek DCE-RPC MITRE BZAR Execution
- Components of a Robust Detection
- How to Build a Robust Detection
- Detection Decomposition Diagram (D3)
- Future Work
- Acknowledgements
- Changelog
Notice¶
© 2023, 2024 MITRE. Approved for public release. Document number(s) CT0078, CT0128.
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