TA0005 / Enterprise tactic
Stealth
Official MITRE tacticThe adversary is trying to hide and conceal their actions, appearing as normal behavior.
Stealth consists of techniques that reduce the likelihood of detection by blending in with legitimate activity or minimizing observable signals. These techniques are characterized by concealment behaviors, such as avoiding, obfuscating, or mimicking normal operations, without modifying security controls or compromising collection and monitoring feeds. The goal is to remain indistinguishable from benign activity while leaving defensive systems intact.
31 techniques
- T1134Access Token Manipulation5 sub-techniques
- T1696Anti-Automation Evasion2 sub-techniques
- T1197BITS Jobs
- T1612Build Image on Host
- T1622Debugger Evasion
- T1678Delay Execution
- T1140Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1006Direct Volume Access
- T1480Execution Guardrails2 sub-techniques
- T1211Exploitation for Stealth
- T1564Hide Artifacts14 sub-techniques
- T1574Hijack Execution Flow12 sub-techniques
- T1070Indicator Removal8 sub-techniques
- T1202Indirect Command Execution
- T1036Masquerading12 sub-techniques
- T1027Obfuscated Files or Information18 sub-techniques
- T1542Pre-OS Boot5 sub-techniques
- T1055Process Injection12 sub-techniques
- T1620Reflective Code Loading
- T1014Rootkit
- T1679Selective Exclusion
- T1684Social Engineering2 sub-techniques
- T1218System Binary Proxy Execution14 sub-techniques
- T1216System Script Proxy Execution2 sub-techniques
- T1221Template Injection
- T1205Traffic Signaling2 sub-techniques
- T1127Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution3 sub-techniques
- T1535Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions
- T1078Valid Accounts4 sub-techniques
- T1497Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion3 sub-techniques
- T1220XSL Script Processing