Malvertising
Legitimate ad placements (often brand-impersonating search ads) redirect to malware or phishing
categorySocial engineering and human-targeted attacksseverityHighdetectabilityNonelabnot yet measured
Example: Lumma Stealer
Classification
24 values: 18 reviewed, 4 imported, 2 derived. What do these mean?
Exploitability
| Attack vector | Malware |
|---|---|
| Reach (CVSS) | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Passive |
| Attacker skill required | Medium |
| Resources required | Medium |
| Likelihood / prevalence | High |
| Maturity | Commoditized |
Impact & scope
| Severity | High |
|---|---|
| Impact | AvailabilityConfidentialityIntegrity |
| Platform | PRE |
| Environment | CloudMobileOn-premises |
| Target asset class | EndpointHumanWeb app / API |
| Kill-chain phase (tactic) | Resource Development |
Detection & telemetry
| Detectability | None |
|---|---|
| Data sources (ATT&CK data components) | Response Content |
Detection & response
Mitigated by 1
- M1056 attack-mitigation
Detected by 1
- DET0836 attack-detection-strategy
Attack relationships
- Parent: Bulletproof hosting
Framework references
- Primary source: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1583/008/
- attack: T1583.008 (primary)
Evidence & sources
- ev-0001 (Cyber Attack Taxonomy) — Name, definition and Example/ID taken verbatim from the 'Social engineering and human-targeted attacks' table, line 37 of Cyber-Attack-Taxonomy.md
- ev-0002 (MITRE Enterprise ATT&CK v19.2 (STIX 2.1)) — ATT&CK usage prevalence: 2 groups/software/campaigns reference this technique (ATT&CK enterprise v19.2)