MITRE ATT&CKtechnique

T1132 Data Encoding

Published 2017-05-31 Modified 2026-09-08 Official page ↗
Domain
enterprise
Tactics
Command And Control
Platforms
ESXi, Linux, macOS, Windows
Version
1.3
Created
2017-05-31

Description

Adversaries may encode data to make the content of command and control traffic more difficult to detect. Command and control (C2) information can be encoded using a standard data encoding system. Use of data encoding may adhere to existing protocol specifications and includes use of ASCII, Unicode, Base64, MIME, or other binary-to-text and character encoding systems. Some data encoding systems may also result in data compression, such as gzip.

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  • TA0011 Command and Control tactic

Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · mitigates (1)

  • M1031 Network Intrusion Prevention mitigation

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Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · uses (8)

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  • G1047 Velvet Ant group
  • S0699 Mythic software (tool)
  • S0386 Ursnif software (malware)
  • S0362 Linux Rabbit software (malware)
  • S0128 BADNEWS software (malware)
  • S0132 H1N1 software (malware)

Referenced by Compliance · mitigates (8)

  • CIS-13.8 Deploy a Network Intrusion Prevention Solution CIS Safeguard v8.1
  • NIST-AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-CA-7 Continuous Monitoring NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-CM-2 Baseline Configuration NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-CM-6 Configuration Settings NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-SC-7 Boundary Protection NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-SI-3 Malicious Code Protection NIST 800-53 control
  • NIST-SI-4 System Monitoring NIST 800-53 control

References