T1036 — Masquerading
Parent technique
Description
Adversaries may attempt to manipulate features of their artifacts to make them appear legitimate or benign to users and/or security tools. Masquerading occurs when the name or location of an object, legitimate or malicious, is manipulated or abused for the sake of evading defenses and observation. This may include manipulating file metadata, tricking users into misidentifying the file type, and giving legitimate task or service names.
Renaming abusable system utilities to evade security monitoring is also a form of Masquerading.
Sub-techniques
- T1036.001 — Invalid Code Signature
- T1036.002 — Right-to-Left Override
- T1036.003 — Rename Legitimate Utilities
- T1036.004 — Masquerade Task or Service
- T1036.005 — Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
- T1036.006 — Space after Filename
- T1036.007 — Double File Extension
- T1036.008 — Masquerade File Type
- T1036.009 — Break Process Trees
- T1036.010 — Masquerade Account Name
- T1036.011 — Overwrite Process Arguments
- T1036.012 — Browser Fingerprint
Detected by EasySIEM
This project's own SigmaHQ-derived detection pipeline tags every compiled rule with the ATT&CK technique(s) it maps to -- if a rule in your install covers this technique, it shows up automatically on your own Grafana Alerts dashboard's "Top ATT&CK Techniques" panel, no lookup needed. This page exists so a click from there always lands here on easysiem.com, not on attack.mitre.org.