- Tactics
- Exfiltration
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- Reference
- attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1029
Description
Adversaries may schedule data exfiltration to be performed only at certain times of day or at certain intervals. This could be done to blend traffic patterns with normal activity or availability.
When scheduled exfiltration is used, other exfiltration techniques likely apply as well to transfer the information out of the network, such as Exfiltration Over C2 Channel or Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol.
How GTK Cyber trains on this
GTK Cyber's Threat Hunting with Data Science course teaches you to build machine-learning detections for techniques like this across the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including the Exfiltration tactic this technique falls under. Practitioner-led, focused on real detections, not memorizing technique IDs.
Related techniques
- T1011 — Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium
- T1020 — Automated Exfiltration
- T1030 — Data Transfer Size Limits
- T1041 — Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1048 — Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
- T1052 — Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- T1537 — Transfer Data to Cloud Account
- T1567 — Exfiltration Over Web Service