Threat intelligence / Technique

Steganography

Adversaries may use steganographic techniques to hide command and control traffic to make detection efforts more difficult. Steganographic techniques can be used to hide data in digital messages that are transferred between systems. This hidden information can be used for command and control of compromised systems. In some cases, the passing of files embedded using steganography, such as image or document files, can be used for command and control.

Technique

TypeTechnique

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First seen2026-08-14

Last seen2026-08-14

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Adversaries may use steganographic techniques to hide command and control traffic to make detection efforts more difficult. Steganographic techniques can be used to hide data in digital messages that are transferred between systems. This hidden information can be used for command and control of compromised systems. In some cases, the passing of files embedded using steganography, such as image or document files, can be used for command and control.

16 recorded

Relationships

mapped-to

from Hiding Malicious Data or Code within Files

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mitigates

from Network Intrusion Prevention

Mitigation

subtechnique-of

to Data Obfuscation

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uses

from Axiom

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from Duqu

Malware

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from HAMMERTOSS

Malware

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from LightNeuron

Malware

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Malware

uses

Malware

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from Operation Ghost

Campaign

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from RDAT

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Tool

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Malware

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from ZeroT

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from Zox

Malware

2 external

References

mitre-attack

T1001.002

University of Birmingham C2

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1408/1408.1136.pdf