TA0043 · RECONNAISSANCE
Search Victim-Owned Websites
Adversaries may search websites owned by the victim for information that can be used during targeting.
Detect it with
Monitor for suspicious network traffic that could be indicative of adversary reconnaissance, such as rapid successions of requests indicative of web crawling and/or large quantities of requests originating from a single source (especially if the source is known to be associated…
Why it matters on shift
Search Victim-Owned Websites is one of the concrete ways adversaries achieve reconnaissance. 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 reconnaissance, the next tactic is usually Resource Development. Search your telemetry for the transition before closing the ticket.
Kill-chain context