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  "type": "x-mitre-analytic",
  "spec_version": "2.1",
  "id": "x-mitre-analytic--99b2296f-dc1c-4b0e-a05a-883a0dbb1535",
  "created": "2025-10-21T15:10:28.402Z",
  "created_by_ref": "identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5",
  "external_references": [
    {
      "source_name": "mitre-attack",
      "url": "https://attack.mitre.org/detectionstrategies/DET0325#AN0922",
      "external_id": "AN0922"
    }
  ],
  "object_marking_refs": [
    "marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168"
  ],
  "modified": "2025-11-12T22:03:39.105Z",
  "name": "Analytic 0922",
  "description": "Unusual process (e.g., `rundll32`, `mshta`, `wscript`, or custom payloads) initiates network connection to external IPs/domains that proxy C2 traffic, often over uncommon ports or high entropy HTTP/S connections.",
  "x_mitre_modified_by_ref": "identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5",
  "x_mitre_deprecated": false,
  "x_mitre_version": "1.0",
  "x_mitre_attack_spec_version": "3.3.0",
  "x_mitre_domains": [
    "enterprise-attack"
  ],
  "x_mitre_platforms": [
    "Windows"
  ],
  "x_mitre_log_source_references": [
    {
      "x_mitre_data_component_ref": "x-mitre-data-component--181a9f8c-c780-4f1f-91a8-edb770e904ba",
      "name": "WinEventLog:Sysmon",
      "channel": "EventCode=3, 22"
    },
    {
      "x_mitre_data_component_ref": "x-mitre-data-component--3d20385b-24ef-40e1-9f56-f39750379077",
      "name": "WinEventLog:Sysmon",
      "channel": "EventCode=1"
    },
    {
      "x_mitre_data_component_ref": "x-mitre-data-component--3772e279-27d6-477a-9fe3-c6beb363594c",
      "name": "WinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational",
      "channel": "Unusual external domain access"
    }
  ],
  "x_mitre_mutable_elements": [
    {
      "field": "DestinationASN",
      "description": "Adjust for known benign but high-risk infrastructure (e.g., hosting providers like DigitalOcean, OVH, etc.)."
    },
    {
      "field": "ParentProcess",
      "description": "Detect suspicious lineage—proxy tools launched from script interpreters or LOLBins."
    },
    {
      "field": "EntropyThreshold",
      "description": "Tune based on expected randomness in outbound request payloads."
    }
  ]
}