Automated Exfiltration: Traffic Duplication T1020.001

Tactic: Exfiltration

Adversaries may leverage traffic mirroring in order to automate data exfiltration over compromised infrastructure. Traffic mirroring is a native feature for some devices, often used for network analysis. For example, devices may be configured to forward network traffic to one or more destinations for analysis by a network analyzer or other monitoring device.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 1 rule above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (3 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
command1starts_with 1monitor session
facility1eq 1MIRROR, SPAN
mnemonic1eq 1CFGLOG_LOGGEDCMD, ETH_SPAN_SESSION_UP, PKTCAP_START

Top indicator values (7 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
commandstarts_with
monitor session
1
facilityeq
MIRROR
1
facilityeq
SPAN
1
mnemoniceq
CFGLOG_LOGGEDCMD
1
mnemoniceq
ETH_SPAN_SESSION_UP
1
mnemoniceq
PKTCAP_START
1
mnemoniceq
SESSION_UP
1

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Splunk 1 rule