MITRE ATT&CKtechnique
T0830 Adversary-in-the-Middle
- Domain
- ics
- Tactics
- Collection
- Platforms
- Embedded, Windows, Linux, Network Devices
- Version
- 2.0
- Created
- 2020-05-21
Description
Adversaries with privileged network access may seek to modify network traffic in real time using adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks. This type of attack allows the adversary to intercept traffic to and/or from a particular device on the network. If a AiTM attack is established, then the adversary has the ability to block, log, modify, or inject traffic into the communication stream. There are several ways to accomplish this attack, but some of the most-common are Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) poisoning and the use of a proxy.
An AiTM attack may allow an adversary to perform the following attacks:
Block Reporting Message, Spoof Reporting Message, Modify Parameter, Unauthorized Command Message
Related
Tactic · MITRE ATT&CK (1)
- TA0100 Collection tactic
Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · mitigates (8)
- M0802 Communication Authenticity mitigation
- M0942 Disable or Remove Feature or Program mitigation
- M0947 Audit mitigation
- M0930 Network Segmentation mitigation
- M0931 Network Intrusion Prevention mitigation
- M0810 Out-of-Band Communications Channel mitigation
- M0813 Software Process and Device Authentication mitigation
- M0814 Static Network Configuration mitigation
References
- http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6142258 Bonnie Zhu, Anthony Joseph, Shankar Sastry 2011
- https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/ICS/man-in-the-middle-attack-modbus-tcp-illustrated-wireshark-38095 Gabriel Sanchez October 2017