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AN1697: Analytic 1697

An app or app update arrives through an expected delivery path or presents as a known legitimate package identity, but its post-install or post-update behavior materially changes in ways inconsistent with its historical role. The defender correlates package identity and install/update context, newly expanded capability state, changed runtime framework use, new sensor or storage behaviors, and new network destinations shortly after installation or update to identify likely supply-chain compromise rather than ordinary malicious sideloading or unrelated post-compromise activity.

MobileAN1697AnalyticObject v1.1Modified
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Automation confidenceMedium

AN1697: Analytic 1697 describes An app or app update arrives through an expected delivery path or presents as a known legitimate package identity, but its post-install or post-update behavior materially changes in ways inconsistent with its historical role. The defender correlates package identity and install/update context, newly expanded capability state, changed runtime framework use, new sensor or storage behaviors, and new network destinations shortly after installation or update to identify likely supply-chain compromise rather than ordinar...

Executive priority

AN1697: Analytic 1697 is an official MITRE ATT&CK detection analytic. Glexia treats it as defensive behavior context for prioritizing monitoring, control validation, and response planning without using the object by itself as an attribution claim.

Technical view

Security teams should validate AN1697: Analytic 1697 by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (Android), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.

Likely telemetry

  • Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata

Detection direction

  • Validate whether AN1697: Analytic 1697 appears in your detection coverage and tabletop scenarios.
  • Use the object to align executive risk language with SOC, incident response, and detection engineering work.
  • Do not treat ATT&CK relationship context as attribution without corroborating evidence.

Mitigation priorities

  • Map the object to existing controls and identify missing telemetry or response ownership.
  • Prioritize mitigations that reduce exposure on the listed platforms and tactics.
  • Review adjacent ATT&CK relationships before changing policy, detections, or reporting language.
Additional notes and limits

Baseline Glexia take generated from the official MITRE ATT&CK STIX object, source hash, tactics, platforms, and detection fields. It is safe to replace with a richer model-generated take for the same source hash later.

This baseline take is source-grounded and schema-validated, but it does not include environment-specific telemetry, incident evidence, or threat-intelligence corroboration.

Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

Analytic 1697

An app or app update arrives through an expected delivery path or presents as a known legitimate package identity, but its post-install or post-update behavior materially changes in ways inconsistent with its historical role. The defender correlates package identity and install/update context, newly expanded capability state, changed runtime framework use, new sensor or storage behaviors, and new network destinations shortly after installation or update to identify likely supply-chain compromise rather than ordinary malicious sideloading or unrelated post-compromise activity.

View the same entry on attack.mitre.org (MITRE-hosted reference; in-page links above use the Glexia ATT&CK library.)

Glexia analysis

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.

Relationship explorer

All related ATT&CK context

No relationships are available in the current normalized data for this object.

Change history

Object version and sync metadata

The fields below describe the current mirrored snapshot. When Glexia retains multiple ATT&CK source imports, you can open the table to compare the same object across releases (hashes and MITRE timestamps). For MITRE’s own release notes and roadmap, see ATT&CK resources — Updates.

ATT&CK release
19.2
Object version
1.1
Created
Modified
Raw hash
7069513fa00e3040...
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
ReleaseBundle importedObject versionModifiedStatusRaw hash
19.21.1Current bundle7069513fa00e…
19.11.1Older bundle7069513fa00e…
Raw source

Mirrored ATT&CK source object

The raw object is retained through the mirrored ATT&CK source bundle and object hash. The raw endpoint returns the exact object from the mirrored bundle when available.

Source references

External references and citations

MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.

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    mitre-attackAN1697
    Open source URL
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