MITRE ATT&CKtechnique

T1652 Device Driver Discovery

Published 2023-03-28 Modified 2025-04-15 Official page ↗
Domain
enterprise
Tactics
Discovery
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows
Version
1.0
Created
2023-03-28

Description

Adversaries may attempt to enumerate local device drivers on a victim host. Information about device drivers may highlight various insights that shape follow-on behaviors, such as the function/purpose of the host, present security tools (i.e. Security Software Discovery) or other defenses (e.g., Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion), as well as potential exploitable vulnerabilities (e.g., Exploitation for Privilege Escalation). Many OS utilities may provide information about local device drivers, such as `driverquery.exe` and the `EnumDeviceDrivers()` API function on Windows. Information about device drivers (as well as associated services, i.e., System Service Discovery) may also be available in the Registry. On Linux/macOS, device drivers (in the form of kernel modules) may be visible within `/dev` or using utilities such as `lsmod` and `modinfo`.

Related

Tactic · MITRE ATT&CK (1)

Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · uses (4)

  • G1051 Medusa Group group
  • S1139 INC Ransomware software (malware)
  • S0376 HOPLIGHT software (malware)
  • S0125 Remsec software (malware)

References