CAPEC-574: Services Footprinting

Description

An adversary exploits functionality meant to identify information about the services on the target system to an authorized user. By knowing what services are registered on the target system, the adversary can learn about the target environment as a means towards further malicious behavior. Depending on the operating system, commands that can obtain services information include "sc" and "tasklist/svc" using Tasklist, and "net start" using Net.

Extended Description

In the case of network based reporting of indicators, an adversary may block traffic associated with reporting to prevent central station analysis. This may be accomplished by many means such as stopping a local process to creating a host-based firewall rule to block traffic to a specific server.

In the case of local based reporting of indicators, an adversary may block delivery of locally-generated log files themselves to the central repository.

Severity :

Low

Possibility :

Low

Type :

Standard

Relationships with other CAPECs

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CAPEC-169: Footprinting Footprinting

Prerequisites

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The adversary must have gained access to the target system via physical or logical means in order to carry out this attack.

Skills required

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Taxonomy mappings

Mappings to ATT&CK, OWASP and other frameworks.

ATTACK | System Service Discovery

Related CWE

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CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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