COMMON ATTACK PATTERN ENUMERATION AND CLASSIFICATIONLive MITRE record

CAPEC-573

Process Footprinting

An adversary exploits functionality meant to identify information about the currently running processes on the target system to an authorized user. By knowing what processes are running on the target system, the adversary can learn about the target environment as a means towards further malicious behavior.

Abstraction

Standard

Typical severity

Low

Likelihood of attack

Low

Understand the attack

What is this attack pattern?

An adversary exploits functionality meant to identify information about the currently running processes on the target system to an authorized user. By knowing what processes are running on the target system, the adversary can learn about the target environment as a means towards further malicious behavior.

Requirements

What does the attack require?

Prerequisites

  • The adversary must have gained access to the target system via physical or logical means in order to carry out this attack.

Skills required

Not stated in the MITRE record.

Resources required

Not stated in the MITRE record.

Impact

What does a successful attack lead to?

Other

Affected scopes: Confidentiality

Bypass Protection MechanismHide Activities

Affected scopes: Confidentiality, Access Control, Authorization

Defence

How is it prevented and mitigated?

1
Identify programs that may be used to acquire process information and block them by using a software restriction policy or tools that restrict program execution by using a process allowlist.

Real world

MITRE example instances

Example instance 1Detail
On a Windows system, the command, "tasklist," displays information about processes. The same function on a Mac OS system is done with the command, "ps."
Example instance 2Detail
In addition to manual discovery of running processes, an adversary can develop malware that carries out this attack pattern before subsequent malicious action.
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