Adversary-in-the-Middle: ARP Cache Poisoning T1557.002

Tactics: Credential Access, Collection

Adversaries may poison Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) caches to position themselves between the communication of two or more networked devices. This activity may be used to enable follow-on behaviors such as Network Sniffing or Transmitted Data Manipulation.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 3 rules 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
facility3eq 3PM, PORT_SECURITY, SISF
mnemonic3eq 2, in 1ERR_DISABLE, IP_THEFT, MAC_AND_IP_THEFT, MAC_THEFT, PSECURE_VIOLATION
disable_cause2eq 2arp-inspection, psecure-violation

Top indicator values (12 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
facilityeq
PM
22
facilityeq
PORT_SECURITY
1
facilityeq
SISF
1
mnemoniceq
ERR_DISABLE
22
mnemoniceq
PSECURE_VIOLATION
1
mnemoniceq
PSECURE_VIOLATION_VLAN
1
disable_causeeq
arp-inspection
1
disable_causeeq
psecure-violation
1
mnemonicin
IP_THEFT
1
mnemonicin
MAC_AND_IP_THEFT
1
mnemonicin
MAC_THEFT
1
mnemonicin
PAK_DROP
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 3 rules