Summiting the Pyramid v1.0.0

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 Engenuity 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.

Contents

• Overview
  • Introduction
• Introduction
  • Project Goal
  • Deconstructing the Pyramid
  • Improving Analytic Robustness
  • Assumptions and Caveats
• Definitions
  • Precision
  • Recall
  • Robustness
  • Observable
  • Analytic
  • Analytic Robustness Categories
  • Event Robustness Categories
• 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
  • Level 2: Core to Adversary-Brought Tool
  • Level 1: Ephemeral Values
  • Column A: Application
  • Column U: User-Mode
  • Column K: Kernel-Mode
  • Observables Quick Search
• Combining Observables
  • Robustness as a Metric
  • Evaluating Robustness
  • Precision and Recall
• Example Mappings
  • T1003.001: LSASS Memory
  • T1053.005 Scheduled Tasks
• How to Score an Analytic
  • Step 1: Scoring the analytic’s sensor data
  • Step 2: Break down each of the observables
  • Step 3: Analyze the selection or condition of the analytic
  • Step 4: Give the analytic a final score
• Analytics Repository
  • Suspicious ADFind
  • Scheduled Task/Job
  • Service Registry Permissions Weakness Check
  • Potential Access Token Abuse
• Capability Abstraction
• Future Work
• Acknowledgements
• Changelog
  • Summiting the Pyramid 1.0

Notice

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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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