ATT&CK coverage › Technique
Archive Collected Data: Archive via Utility T1560.001
Adversaries may use utilities to compress and/or encrypt collected data prior to exfiltration. Many utilities include functionalities to compress, encrypt, or otherwise package data into a format that is easier/more secure to transport.
Events covered
3 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 1 | Process creation |
| Sysmon | 11 | FileCreate |
| Security-Auditing | 4688 | A new process has been created. |
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 (5 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 (69 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 10 rules
- 7Zip Compressing Dump Files
- Compress Data and Lock With Password for Exfiltration With 7-ZIP
- Compress Data and Lock With Password for Exfiltration With WINZIP
- Compressed File Creation Via Tar.EXE
- Compressed File Extraction Via Tar.EXE
- Files Added To An Archive Using Rar.EXE
- Rar Usage with Password and Compression Level
- Suspicious Manipulation Of Default Accounts Via Net.EXE
- Winrar Compressing Dump Files
- WinRAR Execution in Non-Standard Folder