mandiant / mandiant/capa-rules

communicate via Twitter

Open
#325 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

FLARE-TODO rule idea
Dominant language
No language data
Stars
736
Forks
245
Avg merge
4d 53m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

Description

## Rule name

`communicate via Twitter`

## Summary

Use legitimate Twitter service or web site as part of the binary's command and control (C2) communications.

## Possible test samples

Publicly available samples that may contain the capability this rule should detect (MD5 hashes):
- 32bb43f8847ecf158c1e96891ed9a28c
- d1ce79089578da2d41f1ad901f7b1014

## References

Links or references to additional information on the capability (can also be included in the rule):

- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1102/

## Namespace

Proposed namespace: `communication/web-service`. More details in https://github.com/fireeye/capa-rules/blob/master/doc/format.md#rule-namespace

## att&ck

`aka.mitre.att&ck.t1102`

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the rule format guidance in doc/format.md and review the ATT&CK T1102 reference. Use the two listed MD5 hashes as sample references while determining how the rule should identify Twitter or another legitimate web service used for C2; done means the proposed communication/web-service rule detects the stated capability.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.