ATT&CK coverage › Technique
Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol T1048
Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over a different protocol than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location from the main command and control server.
Events covered
7 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
Authoring guide
Patterns shared across the 11 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. Field names are normalized across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.
Fields filtered most (8 distinct)
The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.
Top indicator values (64 distinct)
Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique.
Rules under this technique
Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.
Sigma 8 rules
- Copy From Or To Admin Share Or Sysvol Folder
- Data Export From MSSQL Table Via BCP.EXE
- Powershell DNSExfiltration
- PUA - Restic Backup Tool Execution
- Suspicious Redirection to Local Admin Share
- Tap Driver Installation
- Tap Driver Installation - Security
- Tap Installer Execution