alirezaaminzadeh/secembed-pairs huggingface dataset:
Query: Persistence mechanism resembling Cron
Matching passage: T1053.003 Cron. Tactics: execution, persistence, privilege escalation. Description: Adversaries may abuse the <code>cron</code> utility to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code.(Citation: 20 macOS Common Tools and Techniques) The <code>cron</code> utility is a time-based job scheduler for Unix-like operating systems. The <code> crontab</code> file contains the schedule of cron entries to be run and the specified times for execution. Any <code>crontab</code> files are stored in operating system-specific file paths. An adversary may use <code>cron</code> in Linux or Unix environments to execute programs at system startup or on a scheduled basis for [Persistence](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003). In ESXi environments, cron jobs must be created directly via the crontab file (e.g., `/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root`).(Citation: CloudSEK ESXiArgs 2023)
Near-miss passage: T1053 Scheduled Task/Job. Tactics: execution, persistence, privilege escalation. Description: Adversaries may abuse task scheduling functionality to facilitate initial or recurring execution of malicious code. Utilities exist within all major operating systems to schedule programs or scripts to be executed at a specified date and time. A task can also be scheduled on a remote system, provided the proper authentication is met (ex: RPC and file and printer sharing in Windows environments). Scheduling a task on a remote system typically may require being a member of an admin or otherwise privileged group on the remote system.(Citation: TechNet Task Scheduler Security) Adversaries may use task scheduling to execute programs at system startup or on a scheduled basis for persistence. These mechanisms can also be abused to run a process under the context of a specified account (such as one with elevated permissions/privileges). Similar to [System Binary Proxy Execution](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218), adversaries have also abused task scheduling to potentially mask one-time execution under a trusted system process.(Citation: ProofPoint Serpent)
Query: containment actions for Lateral movement indicators for ESXi Administration Command
Matching passage: Playbook for T1675 ESXi Administration Command. 1) Validate alert telemetry against T1675. 2) Scope affected hosts and accounts. 3) Contain by isolating endpoint / disabling account if confirmed. 4) Hunt for related tactics: execution. 5) Eradicate persistence and recover. Reference detection notes: Adversaries may abuse ESXi administration services to execute commands on guest machines hosted within an ESXi virtual environment. Persistent background services on ESXi-hosted VMs, such as the VMware Tools Daemon Service, allow for remote management from the ESXi server. The tools daemon service runs as `vmtoolsd.exe` on Windows guest operating systems, `vmware-tools-daemon` on macOS, and `vmtoo
Near-miss passage: Playbook for T1127.001 MSBuild. Different response path focused on stealth, execution.
Query: vulnerability: Directory traversal vulnerability in Spiffy before 5.4.
Matching passage: CVE-2015-8235. CWE: CWE-22. CVSS: 7.5. Directory traversal vulnerability in Spiffy before 5.4.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-7270. CWE: CWE-22. CVSS: 7.800000190734863. Dell Integrated Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) 6 before 2.80 and 7/8 before 2.21.21.21 allows directory traversal.
Query: detection rule: Detects when secret scanning rule is deleted for the project or repository.
Matching passage: Sigma rule: Detects when secret scanning rule is deleted for the project or repository.. Logsource: bitbucket / audit. Rule: title: Bitbucket Secret Scanning Rule Deleted id: ff91e3f0-ad15-459f-9a85-1556390c138d status: test description: Detects when secret scanning rule is deleted for the project or repository. references: - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/audit-log-events-776640423.html - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/secret-scanning-1157471613.html author: Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf) date: 2024-02-25 tags: - attack.defense-impairment - attack.t1685 logsource: product: bitbucket service: audit definition: 'Requirements: "Basic" log level is required to receive these audit events.' detection: selection: auditType.category: - Projects - Repositories auditType.action: - Project secret scanning rule deleted - Repository secret scanning rule deleted condition: selection falsepositives: - Legitimate user activity. level: low
Near-miss passage: Sigma rule: Identifies when a privilege role assignment has taken place outside of PIM and may indicate an attack.. Logsource: azure / pim. Rule: title: Roles Assigned Outside PIM id: b1bc08d1-8224-4758-a0e6-fbcfc98c73bb status: test description: Identifies when a privilege role assignment has taken place outside of PIM and may indicate an attack. references: - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-governance/privileged-identity-management/pim-how-to-configure-security-alerts#roles-are-being-assigned-outside-of-privileged-identity-management author: Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo' date: 2023-09-14 tags: - attack.initial-access - attack.stealth - attack.t1078 - attack.persistence - attack.privilege-escalation logsource: product: azure service: pim detection: selection: riskEventType: rolesAssignedOutsidePrivilegedIdentityManagementAlertConfiguration condition: selection falsepositives: - Investigate where users are being assigned privileged roles outside of Privileged Identity Management and prohibit future assignments from there. level: high
Query: detect Firmware Corruption
Matching passage: T1495 Firmware Corruption. Tactics: impact. Description: Adversaries may overwrite or corrupt the flash memory contents of system BIOS or other firmware in devices attached to a system in order to render them inoperable or unable to boot, thus denying the availability to use the devices and/or the system.(Citation: Symantec Chernobyl W95.CIH) Firmware is software that is loaded and executed from non-volatile memory on hardware devices in order to initialize and manage device functionality. These devices may include the motherboard, hard drive, or video cards. In general, adversaries may manipulate, overwrite, or corrupt firmware in order to deny the use of the system or devices. For example, corruption of firmware responsible for loading the operating system for network devices may render the network devices inoperable.(Citation: dhs_threat_to_net_devices)(Citation: cisa_malware_orgs_ukraine) Depending on the device, this attack may also result in [Data Destruction](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1485).
Near-miss passage: T1496.001 Compute Hijacking. Tactics: impact. Description: Adversaries may leverage the compute resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. One common purpose for [Compute Hijacking](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1496/001) is to validate transactions of cryptocurrency networks and earn virtual currency. Adversaries may consume enough system resources to negatively impact and/or cause affected machines to become unresponsive.(Citation: Kaspersky Lazarus Under The Hood Blog 2017) Servers and cloud-based systems are common targets because of the high potential for available resources, but user endpoint systems may also be compromised and used for [Compute Hijacking](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1496/001) and cryptocurrency mining.(Citation: CloudSploit - Unused AWS Regions) Containerized environments may also be targeted due to the ease of deployment via exposed APIs and the potential for scaling mining activities by deploying or compromising multiple containers within an environment or cluster.(Citation: Unit 42 Hildegard Malware)(Citation: Trend Micro Exposed Docker APIs) Additionally, some cryptocurrency mining malware identify then kill off processes for competing malware to ensure it’s not competing for resources.(Citation: Trend Micro War of Crypto Miners)
Query: CVE similar to CVE-2015-6456
Matching passage: CVE-2015-6456. CWE: UNKNOWN. CVSS: 9.0. GE Digital Energy MDS PulseNET and MDS PulseNET Enterprise before 3.1.5 have hardcoded credentials for a support account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by leveraging knowledge of the password.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-3047. CWE: UNKNOWN. CVSS: 5.0. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.14 and 11.x before 11.0.11 on Windows and OS X allow attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.
Query: vulnerability: Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) before 2.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SAML message.
Matching passage: CVE-2015-2684. CWE: CWE-20. CVSS: 4.0. Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) before 2.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SAML message.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-7699. CWE: CWE-20. CVSS: 9.0. The files_external app in ownCloud Server before 7.0.9, 8.0.x before 8.0.7, and 8.1.x before 8.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to instantiate arbitrary classes and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted mount point option, related to "objectstore."
Query: exploit libstagefright in Android before 5.1.1 LMY48T allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka inter
Matching passage: CVE-2015-3867. CWE: CWE-119. CVSS: 10.0. libstagefright in Android before 5.1.1 LMY48T allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 23213430.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-7499. CWE: CWE-119. CVSS: 5.0. Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via unspecified vectors.
Query: risk of SQL injection vulnerability in the Image Management component in Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager 8.1(4) allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL comma
Matching passage: CVE-2015-0684. CWE: CWE-89. CVSS: 6.5. SQL injection vulnerability in the Image Management component in Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager 8.1(4) allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCuq52515.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-7346. CWE: CWE-89. CVSS: 9.800000190734863. SQL injection vulnerability in ZCMS 1.1.
Query: actor TTPs: Cloud Service Dashboard
Matching passage: T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard. Tactics: discovery. Description: An adversary may use a cloud service dashboard GUI with stolen credentials to gain useful information from an operational cloud environment, such as specific services, resources, and features. For example, the GCP Command Center can be used to view all assets, review findings of potential security risks, and run additional queries, such as finding public IP addresses and open ports.(Citation: Google Command Center Dashboard) Depending on the configuration of the environment, an adversary may be able to enumerate more information via the graphical dashboard than an API. This also allows the adversary to gain information without manually making any API requests.
Near-miss passage: T1069.002 Domain Groups. Tactics: discovery. Description: Adversaries may attempt to find domain-level groups and permission settings. The knowledge of domain-level permission groups can help adversaries determine which groups exist and which users belong to a particular group. Adversaries may use this information to determine which users have elevated permissions, such as domain administrators. Commands such as <code>net group /domain</code> of the [Net](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0039) utility, <code>dscacheutil -q group</code> on macOS, and <code>ldapsearch</code> on Linux can list domain-level groups.
Query: vulnerability: IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 through 6.1.0.6 CF27, 6.1.5 through 6.1.5.3 CF27, 7.0.0 through 7.0.0.2 CF29, 8.0.0 before 8.0.0.1 CF19, and 8.5.0 before CF08 allows remote authenticate
Matching passage: CVE-2015-5001. CWE: CWE-399. CVSS: 4.300000190734863. IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 through 6.1.0.6 CF27, 6.1.5 through 6.1.5.3 CF27, 7.0.0 through 7.0.0.2 CF29, 8.0.0 before 8.0.0.1 CF19, and 8.5.0 before CF08 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted document.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-4230. CWE: CWE-399. CVSS: 7.800000190734863. Memory leak in Cisco Headend System Release allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCus91854.
Query: vulnerability: Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite Service Broker (aka VDS-SB), when a VDSM configuration on UCS is used, and Videoscape Distribution Suite for Internet Streaming (aka VDS-IS or C
Matching passage: CVE-2015-0725. CWE: CWE-20. CVSS: 7.800000190734863. Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite Service Broker (aka VDS-SB), when a VDSM configuration on UCS is used, and Videoscape Distribution Suite for Internet Streaming (aka VDS-IS or CDS-IS) before 3.3.1 R7 and 4.x before 4.0.0 R4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a crafted HTTP request, aka Bug IDs CSCus79834 and CSCuu63409.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-7750. CWE: CWE-20. CVSS: 5.0. The L2TP packet processing functionality in Juniper Netscreen and ScreenOS Firewall products with ScreenOS before 6.3.0r13-dnd1, 6.3.0r14 through 6.3.0r18 before 6.3.0r18-dnc1, and 6.3.0r19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted L2TP packet.
Query: patch priority for CVE-2015-4920
Matching passage: CVE-2015-4920. CWE: UNKNOWN. CVSS: 2.0999999046325684. Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11 allows local users to affect integrity via vectors related to NDMP Backup Service.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-0417. CWE: UNKNOWN. CVSS: 4.0. Unspecified vulnerability in the Siebel UI Framework component in Oracle Siebel CRM 8.1.1 and 8.2.2 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Portal Framework, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0388.
Query: describe CVE-2015-0962
Matching passage: CVE-2015-0962. CWE: CWE-18. CVSS: 4.300000190734863. Barracuda Web Filter 7.x and 8.x before 8.1.0.005, when SSL Inspection is enabled, uses the same root Certification Authority certificate across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks against SSL sessions by leveraging the certificate's trust relationship.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-2696. CWE: CWE-18. CVSS: 7.099999904632568. lib/gssapi/krb5/iakerb.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.14 relies on an inappropriate context handle, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer read and process crash) via a crafted IAKERB packet that is mishandled during a gss_inquire_context call.
Query: exploit Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Infinite Automation Mango Automation 2.5.x and 2.6.x through 2.6.0 build 430 allows remote authenticated users to hijack the auth
Matching passage: CVE-2015-6493. CWE: CWE-352. CVSS: 6.800000190734863. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Infinite Automation Mango Automation 2.5.x and 2.6.x through 2.6.0 build 430 allows remote authenticated users to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-8536. CWE: CWE-352. CVSS: 8.800000190734863. MITRE is populating this ID because it was assigned prior to Lenovo becoming a CNA. A vulnerability was discovered (fixed and publicly disclosed in 2015) in Lenovo Solution Center (LSC) prior to version 3.3.002 that could allow cross-site request forgery.
Query: describe CVE-2015-6356
Matching passage: CVE-2015-6356. CWE: CWE-79. CVSS: 4.300000190734863. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WeChat page in Cisco Social Miner 10.0(1) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCuw60212.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-4587. CWE: CWE-79. CVSS: 4.300000190734863. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Alcatel-Lucent CellPipe 7130 router with firmware 1.0.0.20h.HOL allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Custom application" field in the "port triggering" menu.
Query: Sigma rule for Detects network traffic potentially associated with a scraper botnet variant that uses the "Hello-World/1.0" user-agent
Matching passage: Sigma rule: Detects network traffic potentially associated with a scraper botnet variant that uses the "Hello-World/1.0" user-agent. Logsource: proxy. Rule: title: Potential Hello-World Scraper Botnet Activity id: 1712bafe-be05-4a0e-89d4-17a3ed151bf5 status: experimental description: 'Detects network traffic potentially associated with a scraper botnet variant that uses the "Hello-World/1.0" user-agent string. ' references: - https://www.greynoise.io/blog/new-scraper-botnet-concentrated-in-taiwan - https://viz.greynoise.io/tags/hello-world-scraper-botnet?days=30 author: Joseph A. M. date: 2025-08-02 tags: - attack.reconnaissance - attack.t1595 logsource: category: proxy detection: selection: c-useragent: Hello-World/1.0 cs-method: GET condition: selection falsepositives: - Legitimate network monitoring or vulnerability scanning tools that may use this generic user agent. - Internal development or testing scripts. Consider filtering by source IP if this is expected from certain systems. level: medium
Near-miss passage: Sigma rule: Detects a potentially suspicious execution from an uncommon folder.. Logsource: windows / process_creation. Rule: title: Process Execution From A Potentially Suspicious Folder id: 3dfd06d2-eaf4-4532-9555-68aca59f57c4 status: test description: Detects a potentially suspicious execution from an uncommon folder. references: - https://github.com/mbevilacqua/appcompatprocessor/blob/6c847937c5a836e2ce2fe2b915f213c345a3c389/AppCompatSearch.txt - https://www.secureworks.com/research/bronze-butler-targets-japanese-businesses - https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/reports/2019-crowdstrike-global-threat-report/ - https://github.com/ThreatHuntingProject/ThreatHunting/blob/cb22598bb70651f88e0285abc8d835757d2cb596/hunts/suspicious_process_creation_via_windows_event_logs.md author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tim Shelton date: 2019-01-16 modified: 2024-07-12 tags: - attack.stealth - attack.t1036 logsource: category: process_creation product: windows detection: selection: Image|contains: - :\Perflogs\ - :\Users\All Users\ - :\Users\Default\ - :\Users\NetworkService\ - :\Windows\addins\ - :\Windows\debug\ - :\Windows\Fonts\ - :\Windows\Help\ - :\Windows\IME\ - :\Windows\Media\ - :\Windows\repair\ - :\Windows\security\ - :\Windows\System32\Tasks\ - :\Windows\Tasks\ - $Recycle.bin - \config\systemprofile\ - \Intel\Logs\ - \RSA\MachineKeys\ filter_optional_ibm: Image|startswith: C:\Users\Public\IBM\ClientSolutions\Start_Programs\ filter_optional_citrix: Image|startswith: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Citrix\UpdaterBinaries\ Image|endswith: \CitrixReceiverUpdater.exe condition: selection and not 1 of filter_optional_* falsepositives: - Unknown level: high
Query: weakness finalize() Method Without super.finalize()
Matching passage: CWE-568 finalize() Method Without super.finalize(). The product contains a finalize() method that does not call super.finalize().
Near-miss passage: CWE-1268 Policy Privileges are not Assigned Consistently Between Control and Data Agents. The product's hardware-enforced access control for a particular resource improperly accounts for privilege discrepancies between control and write policies.
Query: patch priority for CVE-2015-7828
Matching passage: CVE-2015-7828. CWE: CWE-20. CVSS: 10.0. SAP HANA Database 1.00 SPS10 and earlier do not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or have unspecified other impact via a TrexNet packet to the (1) fcopydir, (2) fmkdir, (3) frmdir, (4) getenv, (5) dumpenv, (6) fcopy, (7) fput, (8) fdel, (9) fmove, (10) fget, (11) fappend, (12) fdir, (13) getTraces, (14) kill, (15) pexec, (16) stop, or (17) pythonexec method, aka SAP Security Note 2165583.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-8899. CWE: CWE-20. CVSS: 7.5. Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.
Query: hunt for Compression activity
Matching passage: T1027.015 Compression. Tactics: stealth. Description: Adversaries may use compression to obfuscate their payloads or files. Compressed file formats such as ZIP, gzip, 7z, and RAR can compress and archive multiple files together to make it easier and faster to transfer files. In addition to compressing files, adversaries may also compress shellcode directly - for example, in order to store it in a Windows Registry key (i.e., [Fileless Storage](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1027/011)).(Citation: Trustwave Pillowmint June 2020) In order to further evade detection, adversaries may combine multiple ZIP files into one archive. This process of concatenation creates an archive that appears to be a single archive but in fact contains the central directories of the embedded archives. Some ZIP readers, such as 7zip, may not be able to identify concatenated ZIP files and miss the presence of the malicious payload.(Citation: Perception Point) File archives may be sent as one [Spearphishing Attachment](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/001) through email. Adversaries have sent malicious payloads as archived files to encourage the user to interact with and extract the malicious payload onto their system (i.e., [Malicious File](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1204/002)).(Citation: NTT Security Flagpro new December 2021) However, some file compression tools, such as 7zip, can be used to produce self-extracting archives. Adversaries may send self-extracting archives to hide the functionality of their payload and launch it without requiring multiple actions from the user.(Citation: The Hacker News) [Compression](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1027/015) may be used in combination with [Encrypted/Encoded File](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1027/013) where compressed files are encrypted and password-protected.
Near-miss passage: T1027.003 Steganography. Tactics: stealth. Description: Adversaries may use steganography techniques in order to prevent the detection of hidden information. Steganographic techniques can be used to hide data in digital media such as images, audio tracks, video clips, or text files. [Duqu](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0038) was an early example of malware that used steganography. It encrypted the gathered information from a victim's system and hid it within an image before exfiltrating the image to a C2 server.(Citation: Wikipedia Duqu) By the end of 2017, a threat group used <code>Invoke-PSImage</code> to hide [PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) commands in an image file (.png) and execute the code on a victim's system. In this particular case the [PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) code downloaded another obfuscated script to gather intelligence from the victim's machine and communicate it back to the adversary.(Citation: McAfee Malicious Doc Targets Pyeongchang Olympics)