ATT&CKReferences

References

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

3865 references

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McAfee Malicious Doc Targets Pyeongchang OlympicsSaavedra-Morales, J., Sherstobitoff, R. (2018, January 6). Malicious Document Targets Pyeongchang Olympics. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
McAfee Maze March 2020Mundo, A. (2020, March 26). Ransomware Maze. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
McAfee Netwire Mar 2015McAfee. (2015, March 2). Netwire RAT Behind Recent Targeted Attacks. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
McAfee Night DragonMcAfee® Foundstone® Professional Services and McAfee Labs™. (2011, February 10). Global Energy Cyberattacks: “Night Dragon”. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
McAfee Oceansalt Oct 2018Sherstobitoff, R., Malhotra, A. (2018, October 18). ‘Operation Oceansalt’ Attacks South Korea, U.S., and Canada With Source Code From Chinese Hacker Group. Retrieved November 30, 2018.
McAfee REvil October 2019Saavedra-Morales, J, et al. (2019, October 20). McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Crescendo. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
McAfee RedLine Stealer April 2024Mohansundaram M, Neil Tyagi. (2024, April 17). Redline Stealer: A Novel Approach. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
McAfee Sandworm November 2013Li, H. (2013, November 5). McAfee Labs Detects Zero-Day Exploit Targeting Microsoft Office. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
McAfee Shamoon December 2018Mundo, A., Roccia, T., Saavedra-Morales, J., Beek, C.. (2018, December 14). Shamoon Returns to Wipe Systems in Middle East, Europe . Retrieved May 29, 2020.
McAfee Shamoon December19 2018Roccia, T., Saavedra-Morales, J., Beek, C.. (2018, December 19). Shamoon Attackers Employ New Tool Kit to Wipe Infected Systems. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
McAfee Sharpshooter December 2018Sherstobitoff, R., Malhotra, A., et. al.. (2018, December 18). Operation Sharpshooter Campaign Targets Global Defense, Critical Infrastructure. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
McAfee Sodinokibi October 2019McAfee. (2019, October 2). McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – What The Code Tells Us. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
McAfee Virtual Jan 2017Roccia, T. (2017, January 19). Stopping Malware With a Fake Virtual Machine. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
McAfee-GhostSecret-fixurlRyan Sherstobitoff. (2018, April 24). Analyzing Operation GhostSecret: Attack Seeks to Steal Data Worldwide. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
McMillan Pwn March 2012Robert McMillan. (2012, March 3). The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
Mcafee Clop Aug 2019Mundo, A. (2019, August 1). Clop Ransomware. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
MediumMichael Koczwara. (2021, March 14). Windows privilege escalation via PowerShell History. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
Medium 777-BotnetGi7w0rm. (2023, October 19). The curious case of the 7777-Botnet. Retrieved June 5, 2025.
Medium Ali Salem Bumblebee April 2022Salem, A. (2022, April 27). The chronicles of Bumblebee: The Hook, the Bee, and the Trickbot connection. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
Medium Anchor DNS July 2020Grange, W. (2020, July 13). Anchor_dns malware goes cross platform. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
Medium Babuk February 2021Sebdraven. (2021, February 8). Babuk is distributed packed. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
Medium Certified Pre OwnedSchroeder, W. (2021, June 17). Certified Pre-Owned. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
Medium DnsTunnelingGalobardes, R. (2018, October 30). Learn how easy is to bypass firewalls using DNS tunneling (and also how to block it). Retrieved March 15, 2020.
Medium Eli Salem GuLoader April 2021Salem, E. (2021, April 19). Dancing With Shellcodes: Cracking the latest version of Guloader. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
Medium KONNI Jan 2020Karmi, D. (2020, January 4). A Look Into Konni 2019 Campaign. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
Medium Metamorfo Apr 2020Erlich, C. (2020, April 3). The Avast Abuser: Metamorfo Banking Malware Hides By Abusing Avast Executable. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
Medium Ptrace JUL 2018Jain, S. (2018, July 25). Code injection in running process using ptrace. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
Medium S2W WhisperGate January 2022S2W. (2022, January 18). Analysis of Destructive Malware (WhisperGate) targeting Ukraine. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
Medium SSL CertJain, M. (2019, September 16). Export & Download — SSL Certificate from Server (Site URL). Retrieved October 20, 2020.
MehtaFastFluxPt1Mehta, L. (2014, December 17). Fast Flux Networks Working and Detection, Part 1. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
MehtaFastFluxPt2Mehta, L. (2014, December 23). Fast Flux Networks Working and Detection, Part 2. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
MelikovBlackBerry LightSpy 2024Melikov, D. (2024, April 11). LightSpy Returns: Renewed Espionage Campaign Targets Southern Asia, Possibly India. Retrieved January 14, 2025.
Metabase Q Mispadu Trojan 2023Garcia, F., Regalado, D. (2023, March 7). Inside Mispadu massive infection campaign in LATAM. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
Metasploit SSH Moduleundefined. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2019.
Metcalf 2015Metcalf, S. (2015, January 19). Attackers Can Now Use Mimikatz to Implant Skeleton Key on Domain Controllers & BackDoor Your Active Directory Forest. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
Methods of Mac Malware PersistencePatrick Wardle. (2014, September). Methods of Malware Persistence on Mac OS X. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
Meyer PyPI Supply Chain Attack UncoveredDarren Meyer. (2025, May 28). PyPI Supply Chain Attack Uncovered: Colorama and Colorizr Name Confusion. Retrieved September 24, 2025.
Meyers Numbered PandaMeyers, A. (2013, March 29). Whois Numbered Panda. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
MicroFocus 9002 Aug 2016Petrovsky, O. (2016, August 30). “9002 RAT” -- a second building on the left. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
Microsoft - Add-MailboxPermissionMicrosoft. (n.d.). Add-Mailbox Permission. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
Microsoft - Azure AD App Registration - May 2019Microsoft. (2019, May 8). Quickstart: Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
Microsoft - Azure AD FederationMicrosoft. (2018, November 28). What is federation with Azure AD?. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
Microsoft - Azure AD Identity Tokens - Aug 2019Microsoft. (2019, August 29). Microsoft identity platform access tokens. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
Microsoft - Azure PowerShellMicrosoft. (2014, December 12). Azure/azure-powershell. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
Microsoft - Cached CredsMicrosoft. (2016, August 21). Cached and Stored Credentials Technical Overview. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
Microsoft - Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber AttacksMSRC. (2020, December 13). Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
Microsoft - Device RegistrationMicrosoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team. (2022, January 26). Evolved phishing: Device registration trick adds to phishers’ toolbox for victims without MFA. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
Microsoft - OAuth Code Authorization flow - June 2019Microsoft. (n.d.). Microsoft identity platform and OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
Microsoft - manifests/assemblyMicrosoft. (2021, January 7). Manifests. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
Microsoft 365 Defender SolorigateMicrosoft 365 Defender Team. (2020, December 28). Using Microsoft 365 Defender to protect against Solorigate. Retrieved January 7, 2021.

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