CAPEC-694 System Location Discovery

An adversary collects information about the target system in an attempt to identify the system's geographical location. Information gathered could include keyboard layout, system language, and timezone. This information may benefit an adversary in confirming the desired target and/or tailoring further attacks.

1. [Explore] [System Locale Information Discovery] The adversary examines system information from various sources such as registry and native API functions and correlates the gathered information to infer the geographical location of the target system

• The adversary must have some level of access to the system and have a basic understanding of the operating system in order to query the appropriate sources for relevant information.

• [Low] The adversary must know how to query various system sources of information respective of the system's operating system to obtain the relevant information.

• Confidentiality: Read Data

• To reduce the amount of information gathered, one could disable various geolocation features of the operating system not required for system operation.