T0871: Execution through API
Essential information
- MITRE technique ID
T0871- Confidence
- 100/100
- Revoked
- No
- Published
- 21/05/2020 19:43
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:44
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
Description
Adversaries may attempt to leverage Application Program Interfaces (APIs) used for communication between control software and the hardware. Specific functionality is often coded into APIs which can be called by software to engage specific functions on a device or other software.
Kill chain phases
| Kill chain | Phase |
|---|---|
| mitre-ics-attack | execution |
Marking (TLP)
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