ATT&CKReferences

References

Reports, blog posts and papers that MITRE cites as evidence.

3865 references

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Palo Alto Unit42 STATELY TAURUS TONESHELL September 2023Lior Rochberger, Tom Fakterman, Robert Falcone. (2023, September 22). Cyberespionage Attacks Against Southeast Asian Government Linked to Stately Taurus, Aka Mustang Panda. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
Palo Alto VOID MANTICORE Iran Cyber Threats March 2026Justin Moore. (2026, March 16). Iranian Cyber Threat Evolution: From MBR Wipers to Identity Weaponization. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
Palo Alto menuPass Feb 2017Miller-Osborn, J. and Grunzweig, J.. (2017, February 16). menuPass Returns with New Malware and New Attacks Against Japanese Academics and Organizations. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
PaloAlto 3102 Sept 2015Falcone, R. & Miller-Osborn, J. (2015, September 23). Chinese Actors Use ‘3102’ Malware in Attacks on US Government and EU Media. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
PaloAlto CardinalRat Apr 2017Grunzweig, J.. (2017, April 20). Cardinal RAT Active for Over Two Years. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
PaloAlto ContagiousInterview BeaverTail InvisibleFerret November 2023Unit 42. (2023, November 21). Hacking Employers and Seeking Employment: Two Job-Related Campaigns Bear Hallmarks of North Korean Threat Actors. Retrieved October 17, 2025.
PaloAlto DNS Requests May 2016Grunzweig, J., et al. (2016, May 24). New Wekby Attacks Use DNS Requests As Command and Control Mechanism. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
PaloAlto EncodedCommand March 2017White, J. (2017, March 10). Pulling Back the Curtains on EncodedCommand PowerShell Attacks. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
PaloAlto MUSTANG PANDA PUBLOAD MARCH 2024Unit42. (2024, March 26). ASEAN Entities in the Spotlight: Chinese APT Group Targeting. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
PaloAlto NanoCore Feb 2016Kasza, A., Halfpop, T. (2016, February 09). NanoCoreRAT Behind an Increase in Tax-Themed Phishing E-mails. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
PaloAlto Patchwork Mar 2018Levene, B. et al.. (2018, March 7). Patchwork Continues to Deliver BADNEWS to the Indian Subcontinent. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
PaloAlto StrelaStealer 2024Benjamin Chang, Goutam Tripathy, Pranay Kumar Chhaparwal, Anmol Maurya & Vishwa Thothathri, Palo Alto Networks. (2024, March 22). Large-Scale StrelaStealer Campaign in Early 2024. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
PaloAlto UBoatRAT Nov 2017Hayashi, K. (2017, November 28). UBoatRAT Navigates East Asia. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
PaloAlto Unit42 ContagiousInterview BeaverTail InvisibileFerret October 2024Unit42. (2024, October 9). Contagious Interview: DPRK Threat Actors Lure Tech Industry Job Seekers to Install New Variants of BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret Malware. Retrieved October 17, 2025.
Pass The CookieRehberger, J. (2018, December). Pivot to the Cloud using Pass the Cookie. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
PassLib mscacheEli Collins. (2016, November 25). Windows' Domain Cached Credentials v2. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
Passcape LSA SecretsPasscape. (n.d.). Windows LSA secrets. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
Password Protected Word DocsLawrence Abrams. (2017, July 12). PSA: Don't Open SPAM Containing Password Protected Word Docs. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
Pastebin EchoSecCiarniello, A. (2019, September 24). What is Pastebin and Why Do Hackers Love It?. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
PaypalScamBob Sullivan. (2000, July 24). PayPal alert! Beware the 'PaypaI' scam. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
PegasusCitizenLabBill Marczak and John Scott-Railton. (2016, August 24). The Million Dollar Dissident: NSO Group’s iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
Peirates GitHubInGuardians. (2022, January 5). Peirates GitHub. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
PenTestLabs AppDomainManagerInjectAdministrator. (2020, May 26). APPDOMAINMANAGER INJECTION AND DETECTION. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
Penetration Testing Lab MSXSL July 2017netbiosX. (2017, July 6). AppLocker Bypass – MSXSL. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
Pentera vCenter Information DisclosureYuval Lazar. (2022, March 29). Mitigating VMware vCenter Information Disclosure. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
Pentesting AD ForestsGarcía, C. (2019, April 3). Pentesting Active Directory Forests. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
Pentestlab Stored CredentialsnetbiosX. (2017, April 19). Stored Credentials. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
Pentestlab Token ManipulationnetbiosX. (2017, April 3). Token Manipulation. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
Pepe Berba Systemd 2022Pepe Berba. (2022, February 7). Hunting for Persistence in Linux (Part 5): Systemd Generators. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
Perception PointArthur Vaiselbuh, Peleg Cabra. (2024, November 7). Evasive ZIP Concatenation: Trojan Targets Windows Users. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
Perez Sitemap XML 2023Adi Perez. (2023, February 22). How Attackers Can Misuse Sitemaps to Enumerate Users and Discover Sensitive Information. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
Peripheral Discovery LinuxShahriar Shovon. (2018, March). List USB Devices Linux. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
Peripheral Discovery macOSSS64. (n.d.). system_profiler. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
Permiso GUI-Vil 2023Ian Ahl. (2023, May 22). Unmasking GUI-Vil: Financially Motivated Cloud Threat Actor. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
Permiso SES Abuse 2023Nathan Eades. (2023, January 12). SES-pionage. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
Permiso Scattered Spider 2023Ian Ahl. (2023, September 20). LUCR-3: SCATTERED SPIDER GETTING SAAS-Y IN THE CLOUD. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
PersistentJXA_leopittLeo Pitt. (2020, August 6). Persistent JXA - A poor man's Powershell for macOS. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
Petri Logon Script ADDaniel Petri. (2009, January 8). Setting up a Logon Script through Active Directory Users and Computers in Windows Server 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
Pfammatter - Hidden Inbox RulesDamian Pfammatter. (2018, September 17). Hidden Inbox Rules in Microsoft Exchange. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
Phish Labs Silent LibrarianHassold, Crane. (2018, March 26). Silent Librarian: More to the Story of the Iranian Mabna Institute Indictment. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
Phoenix TeamPCP 20 MAY 2026Webb, M. (2026, May 20). TeamPCP Wave Four: GitHub Breach via Poisoned VS Code Extension, durabletask PyPI Worm, and ~4,000 Internal Repositories Exfiltrated. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
Picus BlackByte 2022Huseyin Can Yuceel. (2022, February 21). TTPs used by BlackByte Ransomware Targeting Critical Infrastructure. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
Picus Emotet Dec 2018Özarslan, S. (2018, December 21). The Christmas Card you never wanted - A new wave of Emotet is back to wreak havoc. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
Picus Labs Proc cump 2022Huseyin Can YUCEEL & Picus Labs. (2022, March 22). Retrieved March 31, 2023.
Picus Qilin MAR 2025Hacioglu, S. (2025, March 10). Qilin Ransomware: Exposing the TTPs Behind One of the Most Active Ransomware Campaigns of 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
Picus Security BRICKSTORM UNC5221 October 2025Huseyin Can Yuceel. (2025, October 1). BRICKSTORM Malware: UNC5221 Targets Tech and Legal Sectors in the United States. Retrieved April 16, 2026.
Picus Security UNC5221 Ivanti May 2025Sila Ozeren Hacioglu. (2025, May 5). UNC5221’s Latest Exploit: Weaponizing CVE-2025-22457 in Ivanti Connect Secure. Retrieved April 13, 2026.
Picus Sodinokibi January 2020Ozarslan, S. (2020, January 15). A Brief History of Sodinokibi. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
Pincus Emotet 2020Süleyman Özarslan, PhD; Pincus Security Inc.. (2020, July 14). An Analysis of Emotet Malware: PowerShell Unobfuscation. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
Podman SystemdValentin Rothberg. (2022, March 16). How to run pods as systemd services with Podman. Retrieved February 15, 2024.

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