ATT&CKReferences

References

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

3865 references

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Backtrace VDSObacktrace. (2016, April 22). ELF SHARED LIBRARY INJECTION FORENSICS. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
Baeldung LD_PRELOADbaeldung. (2020, August 9). What Is the LD_PRELOAD Trick?. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
BaltimoreSun RobbinHood May 2019Duncan, I., Campbell, C. (2019, May 7). Baltimore city government computer network hit by ransomware attack. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
Banker Google Chrome Extension Steals CredsMarinho, R. (n.d.). (Banker(GoogleChromeExtension)).targeting. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
Barnea DirectSendTom Barnea. (2025, September 9). Ongoing Campaign Abuses Microsoft 365’s Direct Send to Deliver Phishing Emails. Retrieved September 24, 2025.
Bashfuscator Command ObfuscatorsLeFevre, A. (n.d.). Bashfuscator Command Obfuscators. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
Baumgartner Golovkin Naikon 2015Baumgartner, K., Golovkin, M.. (2015, May 14). The Naikon APT. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
Baumgartner Naikon 2015Baumgartner, K., Golovkin, M.. (2015, May). The MsnMM Campaigns: The Earliest Naikon APT Campaigns. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
Beek Use of VHD Dec 2020Beek, C. (2020, December 3). Investigating the Use of VHD Files By Cybercriminals. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
BiZone Lizar May 2021BI.ZONE Cyber Threats Research Team. (2021, May 13). From pentest to APT attack: cybercriminal group FIN7 disguises its malware as an ethical hacker’s toolkit. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
Bienstock, D. - Defending O365 - 2019Bienstock, D.. (2019). BECS and Beyond: Investigating and Defending O365. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
Binary Defense Emotes Wi-Fi SpreaderBinary Defense. (n.d.). Emotet Evolves With new Wi-Fi Spreader. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
Binary Defense Kerberos Linux ARC Labs, Dwyer, John. Gonzalez, Eric. Hudak, Tyler. (2024, October 1). Shining a Light in the Dark – How Binary Defense Uncovered an APT Lurking in Shadows of IT. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
Bishop Fox Sliver Framework August 2019Kervella, R. (2019, August 4). Cross-platform General Purpose Implant Framework Written in Golang. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
BitDefender BADHATCH Mar 2021Vrabie, V., et al. (2021, March 10). FIN8 Returns with Improved BADHATCH Toolkit. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
BitDefender Chafer May 2020Rusu, B. (2020, May 21). Iranian Chafer APT Targeted Air Transportation and Government in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
Bitdefender APT28 Dec 2015Bitdefender. (2015, December). APT28 Under the Scope. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
Bitdefender Agent Tesla April 2020Arsene, L. (2020, April 21). Oil & Gas Spearphishing Campaigns Drop Agent Tesla Spyware in Advance of Historic OPEC+ Deal. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
Bitdefender FIN8 July 2021Martin Zugec. (2021, July 27). Deep Dive Into a FIN8 Attack - A Forensic Investigation. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
Bitdefender FunnyDream Campaign November 2020Vrabie, V. (2020, November). Dissecting a Chinese APT Targeting South Eastern Asian Government Institutions. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
Bitdefender LuminousMoth July 2021Botezatu, B and etl. (2021, July 21). LuminousMoth - PlugX, File Exfiltration and Persistence Revisited. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
Bitdefender NPM Repositories Compromised 2021Silviu Stahie. (2021, November 8). Popular NPM Repositories Compromised in Man-in-the-Middle Attack. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
Bitdefender Naikon April 2021Vrabie, V. (2021, April 23). NAIKON – Traces from a Military Cyber-Espionage Operation. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
Bitdefender Sardonic Aug 2021Budaca, E., et al. (2021, August 25). FIN8 Threat Actor Goes Agile with New Sardonic Backdoor. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
Bitdefender StrongPity June 2020Tudorica, R. et al. (2020, June 30). StrongPity APT - Revealing Trojanized Tools, Working Hours and Infrastructure. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
Bitdefender Trickbot C2 infra Nov 2020Liviu Arsene, Radu Tudorica. (2020, November 23). TrickBot is Dead. Long Live TrickBot!. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
Bitdefender Trickbot March 2020Tudorica, R., Maximciuc, A., Vatamanu, C. (2020, March 18). New TrickBot Module Bruteforces RDP Connections, Targets Select Telecommunication Services in US and Hong Kong. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
Bitdefender Trickbot VNC module Whitepaper 2021Radu Tudorica. (2021, July 12). A Fresh Look at Trickbot’s Ever-Improving VNC Module. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
Bitsight 7777 BotnetBatista, João. Gi7w0rm. (2024, August 27). Retrieved June 5, 2025.
Bitsight Latrodectus June 2024Batista, J. (2024, June 17). Latrodectus, are you coming back?. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
Bizeul 2014Bizeul, D., Fontarensky, I., Mouchoux, R., Perigaud, F., Pernet, C. (2014, July 11). Eye of the Tiger. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
Black Hills Attacking Exchange MailSniper, 2016Bullock, B.. (2016, October 3). Attacking Exchange with MailSniper. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
Black Hills Information Security TruffleHog January 2024Chris Traynor. (2024, January 18). Rooting For Secrets with TruffleHog. Retrieved April 15, 2026.
Black Hills Red Teaming MS AD Azure, 2018Felch, M.. (2018, August 31). Red Teaming Microsoft Part 1 Active Directory Leaks via Azure. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
BlackBastaAntonio Cocomazzi and Antonio Pirozzi. (2022, November 3). Black Basta Ransomware | Attacks Deploy Custom EDR Evasion Tools Tied to FIN7 Threat Actor. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
BlackBerry Amadey 2020Kasuya, M. (2020, January 8). Threat Spotlight: Amadey Bot Targets Non-Russian Users. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
BlackBerry BahamutThe BlackBerry Research & Intelligence Team. (2020, October). BAHAMUT: Hack-for-Hire Masters of Phishing, Fake News, and Fake Apps. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
BlackBerry Black Basta May 2022Ballmer, D. (2022, May 6). Black Basta: Rebrand of Conti or Something New?. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
BlackBerry CostaRicto November 2020The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team. (2020, November 12). The CostaRicto Campaign: Cyber-Espionage Outsourced. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
BlackBerry MUSTANG PANDA October 2022The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team. (2022, October 6). Mustang Panda Abuses Legitimate Apps to Target Myanmar Based Victims. Retrieved October 14, 2025.
BlackBerry_FIN7_April2024 The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team. (2024, April 17). Threat Group FIN7 Targets the U.S. Automotive Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
BlackCat ransomwareLucas Silva, Leandro Froes. (2022, April 18). An Investigation of the BlackCat Ransomware via Trend Micro Vision One. Retrieved February 2, 2026.
BlackHat API PackersChoi, S. (2015, August 6). Obfuscated API Functions in Modern Packers. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
BlackHat Mac OSX RootkitPan, M., Tsai, S. (2014). You can’t see me: A Mac OS X Rootkit uses the tricks you haven't known yet. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
BlackHat Process Doppelgänging Dec 2017Liberman, T. & Kogan, E. (2017, December 7). Lost in Transaction: Process Doppelgänging. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
BlackHatRobinSageRyan, T. (2010). “Getting In Bed with Robin Sage.”. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
BlackHillsInfosec Password SprayingThyer, J. (2015, October 30). Password Spraying & Other Fun with RPCCLIENT. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
BlackWater Malware Cloudflare WorkersLawrence Abrams. (2020, March 14). BlackWater Malware Abuses Cloudflare Workers for C2 Communication. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
Blasco 2013Blasco, J. (2013, March 21). New Sykipot developments [Blog]. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
Bleeping Computer - Ryuk WoLAbrams, L. (2021, January 14). Ryuk Ransomware Uses Wake-on-Lan To Encrypt Offline Devices. Retrieved February 11, 2021.

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