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T1132.001: T1132.001

View on MITRE ATT&CK The MITRE Corporation · Published 15/03/2020 00:36 · Modified 27/03/2026 01:07

Essential information

MITRE technique ID
T1132.001
Confidence
100/100
Revoked
No
Published
15/03/2020 00:36
Modified
27/03/2026 01:07
Author / Source
The MITRE Corporation

Aliases

Standard Encoding

Platforms

windows macos linux ESXi

Description

Adversaries may encode data with a standard data encoding system to make the content of command and control traffic more difficult to detect. Command and control (C2) information can be encoded using a standard data encoding system that adheres to existing protocol specifications. Common data encoding schemes include ASCII, Unicode, hexadecimal, Base64, and MIME.(Citation: Wikipedia Binary-to-text Encoding)(Citation: Wikipedia Character Encoding) Some data encoding systems may also result in data compression, such as gzip.

Kill chain phases

Kill chainPhase
mitre-attack command-and-control

Marking (TLP)

TLP:GREEN Copyright 2015-2025, The MITRE Corporation. MITRE ATT&CK and ATT&CK are registered trademarks of The MITRE Corporation.

External references

Related entities

Intrusion sets, malware, reports, vulnerabilities, indicators and other entities linked to this technique.