Account Discovery (T1087)

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Technique & Subtechniques

Associated Tactics

  • Discovery

Discovery (TA0007)

The adversary is trying to figure out your environment. Discovery consists of techniques an adversary may use to gain knowledge about the system and internal network. These techniques help adversaries observe the environment and orient themselves before deciding how to act. They also allow adversaries to explore what they can control and what’s around their entry point in order to discover how it could benefit their current objective. Native operating system tools are often used toward this post-compromise information-gathering objective.

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Procedure Examples

Description Source(s)
Amazon. (n.d.). List Users. Retrieved August 11, 2020. AWS List Users
Google. (2020, June 23). gcloud iam service-accounts list. Retrieved August 4, 2020. Google Cloud - IAM Servie Accounts List API
Stepanic, D.. (2020, January 13). Embracing offensive tooling: Building detections against Koadic using EQL. Retrieved November 30, 2020. Elastic - Koadiac Detection with EQL