Data Compressed
An adversary may compress data (e.g., sensitive documents) that is collected prior to exfiltration in order to make it portable and minimize the amount of data sent over the network.
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1title: Data Compressed
2id: a3b5e3e9-1b49-4119-8b8e-0344a01f21ee
3status: test
4description: An adversary may compress data (e.g., sensitive documents) that is collected prior to exfiltration in order to make it portable and minimize the amount of data sent over the network.
5references:
6 - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/a78b9ed805ab9ea2e422e1aa7741e9407d82d7b1/atomics/T1560.001/T1560.001.md
7author: Timur Zinniatullin, oscd.community
8date: 2019-10-21
9modified: 2023-07-28
10tags:
11 - attack.exfiltration
12 - attack.t1560.001
13logsource:
14 product: linux
15 service: auditd
16detection:
17 selection1:
18 type: 'execve'
19 a0: 'zip'
20 selection2:
21 type: 'execve'
22 a0: 'gzip'
23 a1: '-k'
24 selection3:
25 type: 'execve'
26 a0: 'tar'
27 a1|contains: '-c'
28 condition: 1 of selection*
29falsepositives:
30 - Legitimate use of archiving tools by legitimate user.
31level: low
References
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