Typosquatting / homoglyph domains
Registered look-alike domains used for phishing, fraud or brand abuse
categorySocial engineering and human-targeted attacksseverityMediumdetectabilityLowlabnot yet measured
Example: 88% of homoglyph domains third-party owned
Classification
24 values: 3 reviewed, 9 imported, 2 derived, 10 machine-classified. What do these mean?
Exploitability
| Attack vector | Supply chain |
|---|---|
| Reach (CVSS) | |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Active |
| Attacker skill required | Low |
| Resources required | Low |
| Likelihood / prevalence | Low |
| Maturity | Commoditized |
Impact & scope
| Severity | Medium |
|---|---|
| Impact | ConfidentialityFinancial |
| Platform | PRE |
| Environment | CloudMobileOn-premises |
| Target asset class | HumanWeb app / API |
| Kill-chain phase (tactic) | Resource Development |
Detection & telemetry
| Detectability | Low |
|---|---|
| Data sources (ATT&CK data components) | Active DNSDomain RegistrationPassive DNS |
Detection & response
Mitigated by 1
- M1056 attack-mitigation
Detected by 1
- DET0892 attack-detection-strategy
Attack relationships
- Parent: Bulletproof hosting
Framework references
- Primary source: https://www.cscdbs.com/blog/fake-domains-real-damage-what-the-latest-data-reveals/
- attack: T1583.001 (primary)
- capec: CAPEC-632
- capec: CAPEC-630
Evidence & sources
- ev-0001 (Cyber Attack Taxonomy) — Name, definition and Example/ID taken verbatim from the 'Social engineering and human-targeted attacks' table, line 55 of Cyber-Attack-Taxonomy.md
- ev-0002 (Seeded-record enrichment run 2026-09-30 (crosswalk + facet classification)) — Crosswalk to attack:T1583.001, capec:CAPEC-632, capec:CAPEC-630 as the nearest framework entries; ids verified to exist in the cached catalogues.
- ev-0003 (CAPEC — Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification 3.9) — CAPEC-630 TypoSquatting: CAPEC prerequisites for this pattern
An adversary requires knowledge of popular or high traffic domains, that could be used to deceive potential targets.
- ev-0004 (CAPEC — Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification 3.9) — CAPEC-632 Homograph Attack via Homoglyphs: CAPEC prerequisites for this pattern
An adversary requires knowledge of popular or high traffic domains, that could be used to deceive potential targets.
- ev-0005 (MITRE Enterprise ATT&CK v19.2 (STIX 2.1)) — ATT&CK usage prevalence: 64 groups/software/campaigns reference this technique (ATT&CK enterprise v19.2)