T1132.001: T1132.001
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 chain | Phase |
|---|---|
| mitre-attack | command-and-control |
Marking (TLP)
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