ATT&CK · T1036.004 · sub-technique
Masquerade Task or Service
Tactics: stealth
About
Adversaries may attempt to manipulate the name of a task or service to make it appear legitimate or benign. Tasks/services executed by the Task Scheduler or systemd will typically be given a name and/or description. Windows services will have a service name as well as a display name. Many benign tasks and services exist that have commonly associated names. Adversaries may give tasks or services names that are similar or identical to those of legitimate ones. Tasks or services contain other fields, such as a description, that adversaries may attempt to make appear legitimate.
Used by actors
23 known groups
Software
62 malware/tools implement this
Corpus indicators tagged with this technique
75 indicators in the corpus carry T1036.004.
Showing the top 30 by severity of 75.