Compromise Infrastructure: Domains T1584.001

Tactic: Resource Development

Adversaries may hijack domains and/or subdomains that can be used during targeting. Domain registration hijacking is the act of changing the registration of a domain name without the permission of the original registrant. Adversaries may gain access to an email account for the person listed as the owner of the domain. The adversary can then claim that they forgot their password in order to make changes to the domain registration. Other possibilities include social engineering a domain registration help desk to gain access to an account, taking advantage of renewal process gaps, or compromising a cloud service that enables managing domains (e.g., AWS Route53).

Authoring guide

These 3 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.

Fields filtered most (5 distinct)

These fields appear most often in rule filters.

FieldRulesHowSample values
EventType3eq 2, in 1add unverified domain, disabledomaintransferlock, transferdomaintoanotherawsaccount, verify domain
data_stream.dataset3eq 3aws.cloudtrail, azure.auditlogs
event.outcome3eq 3success
Provider_Name2eq 2route53domains.amazonaws.com
azure.auditlogs.properties.category1eq 1directorymanagement

Top indicator values (9 distinct)

These values appear most often in rule predicates.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
event.outcomeeq
success
3375
Provider_Nameeq
route53domains.amazonaws.com
22
data_stream.dataseteq
aws.cloudtrail
2173
data_stream.dataseteq
azure.auditlogs
126
EventTypeeq
disabledomaintransferlock
1
EventTypeeq
transferdomaintoanotherawsaccount
1
EventTypein
add unverified domain
1
EventTypein
verify domain
1
azure.auditlogs.properties.categoryeq
directorymanagement
12

Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

Domain: Cloud

Platform (all)

Elastic 3 rules