AN1932: Analytic 1932
Monitor for newly executed processes that can aid in sniffing network traffic to capture information about an environment. Monitor executed commands and arguments for actions that aid in sniffing network traffic to capture information about an environment.
Analyst context for executives and security teams
This analytic matters because network-sniffing tools or commands can give an intruder visibility into an industrial environment, including communications patterns and potentially sensitive operational information. For leaders, the practical question is whether the organization can reliably see newly executed processes and command-line activity that indicate traffic capture, especially in environments where monitoring is often constrained or uneven.
Executive priority
Treat this as a visibility and readiness check for ICS security operations rather than as proof of a specific threat. Executives should ask whether SOC and incident response teams have enough endpoint and command execution telemetry to investigate suspected reconnaissance or traffic-capture activity, and whether those data sources are included in compliance evidence, IR playbooks, and operational resilience planning. Where ICS assets cannot support full endpoint monitoring, compensating controls and documented blind spots become important risk-management items.
Technical view
The supplied ATT&CK analytic directs defenders to monitor newly executed processes and executed commands/arguments that may aid network traffic sniffing. Because no platforms, tactics, relationships, or formal detection logic are supplied, teams should validate the general detection capability in their own environment: process creation visibility, command-line capture, asset context, and the ability to distinguish approved administrative or troubleshooting activity from unusual execution. In ICS, this should be reviewed carefully to avoid disrupting operations and to account for engineering workstations, jump hosts, servers, and other systems where packet capture utilities may legitimately appear.
Likely telemetry
- Process creation events
- Command-line and argument logging
- Endpoint security or EDR alerts where deployed
- Administrative tool execution records
- Host identity, user, and asset criticality context
Detection direction
- Validate that process execution and command-line arguments are collected on relevant ICS-supporting systems where feasible.
- Build or tune detections around newly executed processes and commands associated with traffic sniffing behavior, using local allowlists for approved diagnostics and maintenance workflows.
- Correlate execution with user identity, host role, timing, and change tickets to reduce false positives from legitimate network troubleshooting.
- Prioritize review of activity on engineering workstations, operator-support systems, jump hosts, and other systems with visibility into sensitive network segments, if applicable to the local architecture.
- Document blind spots where endpoint telemetry is unavailable or command-line capture is disabled, and determine whether alternate monitoring can provide compensating evidence.
Mitigation priorities
- Establish an approved-use process for network capture and diagnostic tools in operational environments.
- Restrict administrative privileges and tool execution rights to authorized personnel and systems.
- Maintain asset and role context so detections can distinguish expected troubleshooting from unusual execution.
- Preserve process and command telemetry for incident response and audit review where operationally feasible.
- Review monitoring gaps in ICS environments and define compensating controls where host-based collection is not possible.
Analyst notes and limits
This take is based only on ATT&CK analytic AN1932 in the ICS domain. The object provides a monitoring concept but no ATT&CK tactics, platforms, relationships, or formal detection logic. The value is therefore in using it as a control-validation prompt: can the organization see process and command activity that may support network sniffing, and can analysts interpret that activity in operational context?
No official detection logic, platform scope, tactic mapping, related techniques, threat groups, tools, or procedure examples were supplied. Local asset architecture, logging capability, approved diagnostic practices, and operational constraints are required before determining coverage or risk.
Analytic 1932
Monitor for newly executed processes that can aid in sniffing network traffic to capture information about an environment. Monitor executed commands and arguments for actions that aid in sniffing network traffic to capture information about an environment.
How security teams should use this page
Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.
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Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases (1)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.1 | 1.0 | Current bundle | aa2940acb742… |
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