TA0042 · RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Establish Accounts
Adversaries may create and cultivate accounts with services that can be used during targeting. Adversaries can create accounts that can be used to build a persona to further operations.
Detect it with
Consider monitoring social media activity related to your organization. Suspicious activity may include personas claiming to work for your organization or recently created/modified accounts making numerous connection requests to accounts affiliated with your organization.
Why it matters on shift
Establish Accounts is one of the concrete ways adversaries achieve resource development. Recognising it in telemetry lets you name the technique in your ticket and pivot to what came before and after.
What to look for next
After resource development, the next tactic is usually Initial Access. Search your telemetry for the transition before closing the ticket.
3 sub-techniques
How it shows up in practice
- T1585.001
Social Media Accounts
Adversaries may create and cultivate social media accounts that can be used during targeting. Adversaries can create social media accounts that can be used to build a persona to further operations.
- T1585.002
Email Accounts
Adversaries may create email accounts that can be used during targeting. Adversaries can use accounts created with email providers to further their operations, such as leveraging them to conduct Phishing for Information or Phishing.
- T1585.003
Cloud Accounts
Adversaries may create accounts with cloud providers that can be used during targeting.
Kill-chain context