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MITRE ATT&CK  /  T1032

T1032

Standard Cryptographic Protocol

Command and Control

Description

Adversaries may explicitly employ a known encryption algorithm to conceal command and control traffic rather than relying on any inherent protections provided by a communication protocol. Despite the use of a secure algorithm, these implementations may be vulnerable to reverse engineering if necessary secret keys are encoded and/or generated within malware samples/configuration files.

Platforms

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