- Tactics
- Reconnaissance
- Platforms
- PRE
- Reference
- attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1592.003
Description
Adversaries may gather information about the victim’s host firmware that can be used during targeting. Information about host firmware may include a variety of details such as type and versions on specific hosts, which may be used to infer more information about hosts in the environment (ex: configuration, purpose, age/patch level, etc.).
Adversaries may gather this information in various ways, such as direct elicitation via Phishing for Information. Information about host firmware may only be exposed to adversaries via online or other accessible data sets (ex: job postings, network maps, assessment reports, resumes, or purchase invoices).(Citation: ArsTechnica Intel) Gathering this information may reveal opportunities for other forms of reconnaissance (ex: Search Open Websites/Domains or Search Open Technical Databases), establishing operational resources (ex: Develop Capabilities or Obtain Capabilities), and/or initial access (ex: Supply Chain Compromise or Exploit Public-Facing Application).
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 Reconnaissance tactic this technique falls under. Practitioner-led, focused on real detections, not memorizing technique IDs.
Related techniques
- T1589 - Gather Victim Identity Information
- T1590 - Gather Victim Network Information
- T1591 - Gather Victim Org Information
- T1592 - Gather Victim Host Information
- T1593 - Search Open Websites/Domains
- T1594 - Search Victim-Owned Websites
- T1595 - Active Scanning
- T1596 - Search Open Technical Databases
- T1597 - Search Closed Sources
- T1598 - Phishing for Information
- T1681 - Search Threat Vendor Data
- T1682 - Query Public AI Services