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T1132.002: T1132.002

View on MITRE ATT&CK The MITRE Corporation · Published 16/12/2025 19:38 · Modified 30/03/2026 12:12

Essential information

MITRE technique ID
T1132.002
Confidence
100/100
Revoked
No
Published
16/12/2025 19:38
Modified
30/03/2026 12:12
Author / Source
The MITRE Corporation

Aliases

Non-Standard Encoding

Platforms

windows macos linux ESXi

Description

Adversaries may encode data with a non-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 non-standard data encoding system that diverges from existing protocol specifications. Non-standard data encoding schemes may be based on or related to standard data encoding schemes, such as a modified Base64 encoding for the message body of an HTTP request.(Citation: Wikipedia Binary-to-text Encoding) (Citation: Wikipedia Character Encoding)

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