T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer — ATT&CK Technique

Adversaries may transfer tools or other files between systems in a compromised environment. Once brought into the victim environment (i.e., Ingress Tool Transfer) files may then be copied from one system to another to stage adversary tools or other files over the course of an operation. Adversaries may copy files between internal victim systems to support lateral movement using inherent file sharing protocols such as file sharing over SMB/Windows Admin Shares to connected network shares or with authenticated connections via Remote Desktop Protocol. Files can also be transferred using native or otherwise present tools on the victim system, such as scp, rsync, curl, sftp, and ftp. In some cases, adversaries may be able to leverage Web Services such as Dropbox or OneDrive to copy files from one machine to another via shared, automatically synced folders.

Detection coverage (6)

SMB over QUIC Via PowerShell Script medium
SMB over QUIC Via Net.EXE medium
Metasploit Or Impacket Service Installation Via SMB PsExec high
Potentially Suspicious File Creation by OpenEDR's ITSMService medium
PSEXEC Remote Execution File Artefact high
Rundll32 Execution Without Parameters high

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