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MITRE ATT&CK® Technique

T1408: Disguise Root/Jailbreak Indicators

An adversary could use knowledge of the techniques used by security software to evade detection[1][2]. For example, some mobile security products perform compromised device detection by searching for particular artifacts such as an installed "su" binary, but that check could be evaded by naming the binary something else. Similarly, polymorphic code techniques could be used to evade signature-based detection[3].

MobileT1408TechniqueObject v1.1 Modified
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Disguise Root/Jailbreak Indicators

An adversary could use knowledge of the techniques used by security software to evade detection[1][2]. For example, some mobile security products perform compromised device detection by searching for particular artifacts such as an installed "su" binary, but that check could be evaded by naming the binary something else. Similarly, polymorphic code techniques could be used to evade signature-based detection[3].

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Domain ID Name Relationship / procedure
Mobile T1630.003 Disguise Root/Jailbreak Indicators Sub-technique This object revoked by Disguise Root/Jailbreak Indicators.
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  1. [1]
    Brodie

    Daniel Brodie. (2016). Practical Attacks against Mobile Device Management (MDM). Retrieved December 21, 2016.

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  2. [2]
    Tan

    Vincent Tan. (2016, August). BAD FOR ENTERPRISE: ATTACKING BYOD ENTERPRISE MOBILE SECURITY SOLUTIONS. Retrieved February 4, 2017.

    Open source URL
  3. [3]
    Rastogi

    Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, and Xuxian Jiang. (2013, May). DroidChameleon: Evaluating Android Anti-malware against Transformation Attacks. Retrieved December 9, 2016.

    Open source URL
  4. [4]
    NIST Mobile Threat Catalogue EMM-5
    Open source URL
  5. [5]
    mitre-attack T1408
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