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Credentials & User Impersonation

Credential API Hooking

T1056.004 · MITRE ATT&CK

Adversaries hook Windows API functions or Linux and macOS system functions whose calls expose user credentials, collecting credential-bearing parameters or results. Windows mechanisms include hook procedures, import-address-table hooks, and inline hooks; Linux and macOS can use shared-library preloading to intercept relevant system functions. Unlike keylogging, this targets credential-bearing calls rather than raw keystrokes.

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CategoryCredential Harvesting

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Step 1

RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER

RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER

Requirements: ALL(RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER)

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Cobalt Strike · Inject a shellcode payload into a process from Beacon

Inject a shellcode payload into a process from Beacon

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RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER

Version: RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER. Requirements: ALL(RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER)Documents all requested outcomes. This is a candidate, not proof of execution or compatibility.

RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER

Detection signal

Detection 01

RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER

Mitigations

Mitigation 01

RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER

OPSEC notes

RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER

References

https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1056/004/

Extended details

RESTRICTED_ACCESS_BLUR_MARKER