Serverless

T1584.007

Sub-technique of T1584 Compromise Infrastructure.View on attack.mitre.org

About this technique

Adversaries may compromise serverless cloud infrastructure, such as Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda functions, or Google Apps Scripts, that can be used during targeting. By utilizing serverless infrastructure, adversaries can make it more difficult to attribute infrastructure used during operations back to them.

Once compromised, the serverless runtime environment can be leveraged to either respond directly to infected machines or to Proxy traffic to an adversary-owned command and control server. As traffic generated by these functions will appear to come from subdomains of common cloud providers, it may be difficult to distinguish from ordinary traffic to these providers - making it easier to Hide Infrastructure.

Detection rules0

Rules on DetectionCode tagged with T1584.007.

Sigma0

No Sigma rules are mapped to this technique yet.

Splunk0

No Splunk rules are mapped to this technique yet.

Groups0

None recorded.

Software0

None recorded.

Campaigns0

None recorded.

Procedure examples0

No procedure examples are recorded for this technique.

References4

AWS Lambda Redirector Open source
Adam Chester. (2020, February 25). AWS Lambda Redirector. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
BlackWater Malware Cloudflare Workers Open source
Lawrence Abrams. (2020, March 14). BlackWater Malware Abuses Cloudflare Workers for C2 Communication. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
Detecting Command & Control in the Cloud Open source
Gary Golomb. (n.d.). Threat Hunting Series: Detecting Command & Control in the Cloud. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
GWS Apps Script Abuse 2021 Open source
Sergiu Gatlan. (2021, February 18). Hackers abuse Google Apps Script to steal credit cards, bypass CSP. Retrieved July 1, 2024.

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