Compliance Node Overview
MITRE ATT&CK T1546 (Event Triggered Execution) is an Enterprise Privilege Escalation and Persistence technique. Adversaries may establish persistence and/or elevate privileges using system mechanisms that trigger execution based on specific events. Various operating systems have means to monitor and subscribe to events such as logons or other user activity such as running specific applications/binaries. Cloud environments may also support various functions and services that monitor and can be invoked in response to specific cloud events. ATT&CK documents 17 sub-techniques: T1546.001 Change Default File Association; T1546.002 Screensaver; T1546.003 Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription; T1546.004 Unix Shell Configuration Modification; T1546.005 Trap; T1546.006 LC_LOAD_DYLIB Addition; T1546.007 Netsh Helper DLL; T1546.008 Accessibility Features; T1546.009 AppCert DLLs; T1546.010 AppInit DLLs; T1546.011 Application Shimming; T1546.012 Image File Execution Options Injection; T1546.013 PowerShell Profile; T1546.014 Emond; T1546.015 Component Object Model Hijacking; T1546.016 Installer Packages; T1546.017 Udev Rules. Affected platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows, SaaS, IaaS, Office Suite. MITRE-documented mitigations include M1026 Privileged Account Management, M1051 Update Software. The Center for Threat-Informed Defense maps this technique to NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 controls AC-02, AC-03, AC-06, CM-02, CM-03, CM-06, IA-09, SI-02.
Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: MITRE Corporation · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/
SHA-256 integrity: 576792a243a8f785881ae78a57a481aa8a0fb7babf3bd8145d553b14b6e0b898
Primary Citations — 7 traced to source
- MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1546: Event Triggered Execution (https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/) with 17 sub-techniques
- MITRE ATT&CK Tactic TA0004: Privilege Escalation (https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/)
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