CAPEC-576: Group Permission Footprinting

Description
An adversary exploits functionality meant to identify information about user groups and their permissions on the target system to an authorized user. By knowing what users/permissions are registered on the target system, the adversary can inform further and more targeted malicious behavior. An example Windows command which can list local groups is "net localgroup".
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 | Permission Groups Discovery ATTACK | Group Policy Discovery
Related CWE

A Related Weakness relationship associates a weakness with this attack pattern. Each association implies a weakness that must exist for a given attack to be successful.

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

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