MITRE ATT&CK CoA - T1133 - External Remote Services

This playbook Remediates the External Remote Services technique using intelligence-driven Courses of Action (COA) defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team. ***Disclaimer: This playbook does not simulate an attack using the specified technique, but follows the steps to remediation as defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team’s Actionable Threat Objects and Mitigations (ATOMs). Techniques Handled: - T1133: External Remote Services Kill Chain phases: - Persistence - Initial Access MITRE ATT&CK Description: Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. Without knowledge of the password for an account or set of accounts, an adversary may systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism. Brute forcing passwords can take place via interaction with a service that will check the validity of those credentials or offline against previously acquired credential data, such as password hashes. Possible playbook uses: - The playbook can be used independently to handle and remediate the specific technique. - The playbook can be used as a part of the “Courses of Action - Defense Evasion” playbook to remediate techniques based on the kill chain phase. - The playbook can be used as a part of the “MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action” playbook, which can be triggered by different sources and accepts the technique MITRE ATT&CK ID as an input.

MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action · 11 tasks · 3 inputs · 1 output

Details

ID	`MITRE ATT&CK CoA - T1133 - External Remote Services`
From Version	6.5.0
Tasks	11

README

This playbook Remediates the External Remote Services technique using intelligence-driven Courses of Action (COA) defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team.

***Disclaimer: This playbook does not simulate an attack using the specified technique, but follows the steps to remediation as defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team’s Actionable Threat Objects and Mitigations (ATOMs).
Techniques Handled:

T1133: External Remote Services

Kill Chain phases:

Persistence
Initial Access

MITRE ATT&CK Description:

Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. Without knowledge of the password for an account or set of accounts, an adversary may systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism. Brute forcing passwords can take place via interaction with a service that will check the validity of those credentials or offline against previously acquired credential data, such as password hashes.

Possible playbook uses:

The playbook can be used independently to handle and remediate the specific technique.
The playbook can be used as a part of the “Courses of Action - Defense Evasion” playbook to remediate techniques based on the kill chain phase.
The playbook can be used as a part of the “MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action” playbook, which can be triggered by different sources and accepts the technique MITRE ATT&CK ID as an input.

Dependencies

This playbook uses the following sub-playbooks, integrations, and scripts.

Sub-playbooks

PAN-OS - Enforce Vulnerability Protection Best Practices Profile

Integrations

This playbook does not use any integrations.

Scripts

IsIntegrationAvailable
Set
SetGridField

Commands

This playbook does not use any commands.

Playbook Inputs

Name	Description	Required
pre_post	Rules location. Can be ‘pre-rulebase’ or ‘post-rulebase’. Mandatory for Panorama instances.	Optional
device-group	The device group for which to return addresses (Panorama instances).	Optional
tag	Tag for which to filter the results.	Optional

Playbook Outputs

Path	Description	Type
Handled.Techniques	The techniques handled in this playbook	string

Playbook Image

MITRE ATT&CK CoA - T1133 - External Remote Services

Inputs

pre_post — Rules location. Can be 'pre-rulebase' or 'post-rulebase'. Mandatory for Panorama instances.
device-group — The device group for which to return addresses (Panorama instances).
tag — Tag for which to filter the results.

Outputs

Handled.Techniques — The techniques handled in this playbook

Flowchart

Source

playbook-CoA_-_T1133_-_External_Remote_Services.yml

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description: "This playbook Remediates the External Remote Services technique using intelligence-driven Courses of Action (COA) defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team.\n \n***Disclaimer: This playbook does not simulate an attack using the specified technique, but follows the steps to remediation as defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team’s Actionable Threat Objects and Mitigations (ATOMs).\nTechniques Handled:\n- T1133: External Remote Services\n\nKill Chain phases:\n- Persistence\n- Initial Access\n\nMITRE ATT&CK Description:\n\nAdversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. Without knowledge of the password for an account or set of accounts, an adversary may systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism. Brute forcing passwords can take place via interaction with a service that will check the validity of those credentials or offline against previously acquired credential data, such as password hashes.\n\nPossible playbook uses:\n- The playbook can be used independently to handle and remediate the specific technique.\n- The playbook can be used as a part of the “Courses of Action - Defense Evasion” playbook to remediate techniques based on the kill chain phase.\n- The playbook can be used as a part of the “MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action” playbook, which can be triggered by different sources and accepts the technique MITRE ATT&CK ID as an input."
id: MITRE ATT&CK CoA - T1133 - External Remote Services
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