- Tactics
- Impact
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- Reference
- attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1565.001
Description
Adversaries may insert, delete, or manipulate data at rest in order to influence external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data.(Citation: FireEye APT38 Oct 2018)(Citation: DOJ Lazarus Sony 2018) By manipulating stored data, adversaries may attempt to affect a business process, organizational understanding, and decision making.
Stored data could include a variety of file formats, such as Office files, databases, stored emails, and custom file formats. The type of modification and the impact it will have depends on the type of data as well as the goals and objectives of the adversary. For complex systems, an adversary would likely need special expertise and possibly access to specialized software related to the system that would typically be gained through a prolonged information gathering campaign in order to have the desired impact.
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 Impact tactic this technique falls under. Practitioner-led, focused on real detections, not memorizing technique IDs.
Related techniques
- T1485 — Data Destruction
- T1486 — Data Encrypted for Impact
- T1489 — Service Stop
- T1490 — Inhibit System Recovery
- T1491 — Defacement
- T1495 — Firmware Corruption
- T1496 — Resource Hijacking
- T1498 — Network Denial of Service
- T1499 — Endpoint Denial of Service
- T1529 — System Shutdown/Reboot
- T1531 — Account Access Removal
- T1561 — Disk Wipe