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T1069.001: Local Groups

Adversaries may attempt to find local system groups and permission settings. The knowledge of local system permission groups can help adversaries determine which groups exist and which users belong to a particular group. Adversaries may use this information to determine which users have elevated permissions, such as the users found within the local administrators group.

Commands such as net localgroup of the Net utility, dscl . -list /Groups on macOS, and groups on Linux can list local groups.

EnterpriseT1069.001Sub-techniqueObject v1.2Modified
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Security context for executives and security teams

Automation confidenceHigh

Local Groups is a discovery behavior where an intruder checks which local groups exist on a Linux, macOS, or Windows host and who belongs to them. The business significance is not the query itself; it is that the result helps an attacker identify local administrators or other elevated users to guide follow-on access decisions.

Executive priority

Treat this as an early warning behavior for privilege and lateral-movement risk. Security leaders should ask whether SOC coverage can see local group enumeration consistently across Windows, macOS, and Linux, and whether local administrator membership is governed well enough to limit the value of this discovery. It is also useful audit evidence for least-privilege, endpoint monitoring, and incident response readiness.

Technical view

ATT&CK lists this sub-technique under Discovery and ties it to Permission Groups Discovery. Validate telemetry for native enumeration commands such as Windows Net utility usage with `net localgroup`, macOS `dscl . -list /Groups`, and Linux `groups`. Because official detection text is not provided, use the related DET0114 detection strategy as context, then tune locally around command execution, parent process, user context, host role, and whether the activity is interactive administration, scripted management, or unusual post-compromise discovery. Relationship context shows this behavior is used by multiple campaigns, groups, and software entries, including Net and Cobalt Strike, so it should not be treated as niche.

Likely telemetry

  • Endpoint process creation telemetry with command-line arguments
  • Shell or terminal execution records on Linux, macOS, and Windows
  • EDR telemetry showing parent process, user, integrity/privilege context, and host
  • Local group and local administrator membership data for comparison and baselining
  • Administrative script or remote management execution logs where available

Detection direction

  • Confirm that command-line logging captures `net localgroup`, `dscl . -list /Groups`, and `groups` across supported platforms.
  • Baseline legitimate help desk, configuration management, and administrative scripts that enumerate groups to reduce false positives.
  • Prioritize alerts when enumeration occurs from unusual users, newly compromised endpoints, non-administrative workstations, remote shells, or processes associated with suspicious post-exploitation activity.
  • Correlate group enumeration with adjacent discovery and credential/privilege activity rather than relying on a single command as definitive evidence.
  • Account for blind spots where command-line arguments, macOS/Linux shell activity, or unmanaged endpoints are not centrally collected.

Mitigation priorities

  • Reduce the payoff of this behavior by reviewing and minimizing local administrator and other elevated local group membership.
  • Standardize endpoint logging so local group discovery is visible across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Document approved administrative use cases for local group enumeration and route them through managed tooling where possible.
  • Use incident response playbooks to treat unexpected local group enumeration as a pivot point for checking privilege exposure and follow-on discovery.
  • Where compliance evidence is required, retain proof of local privilege governance, endpoint telemetry coverage, and alert tuning decisions.
Additional notes and limits

This object has no official ATT&CK detection text, but it is linked to DET0114, Behavioral Detection of Local Group Enumeration Across OS Platforms. The relationship set includes campaigns, groups, and software that use this technique, indicating broad relevance without implying current activity in any specific environment.

Assessment is limited to the supplied ATT&CK fields, external reference, and relationship context. Local prevalence, severity, and detection quality depend on endpoint logging, administrative baselines, operating system mix, and actual local group membership risk.

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

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

Local Groups

Adversaries may attempt to find local system groups and permission settings. The knowledge of local system permission groups can help adversaries determine which groups exist and which users belong to a particular group. Adversaries may use this information to determine which users have elevated permissions, such as the users found within the local administrators group.

Commands such as net localgroup of the Net utility, dscl . -list /Groups on macOS, and groups on Linux can list local groups.

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.

ATT&CK relationship table

Related techniques

This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.

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DomainIDNameRelationship / procedure
EnterpriseT1069Permission Groups DiscoveryThis object subtechnique of Permission Groups Discovery.
Associated objects

Groups, software, and campaigns

GroupEnterprise

G0010: Turla

Turla is a cyber espionage threat group that has been attributed to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). They have compromised victims in over 50 countries since at least 2004, spanning a range of industries including government, embassies, military, education, research and pharmaceutical companies. Turla is known for conducting watering hole and spearphishing campaigns, and leveraging in-house tools and malware, such as Uroburos.[1][2][3][4][5]

GroupEnterprise

G0131: Tonto Team

Tonto Team is a suspected Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage threat group that has primarily targeted South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States since at least 2009; by 2020 they expanded operations to include other Asian as well as Eastern European countries. Tonto Team has targeted government, military, energy, mining, financial, education, healthcare, and technology organizations, including through the Heartbeat Campaign (2009-2012) and Operation Bitter Biscuit (2017).[1][2][3][4][5][6]

GroupEnterprise

G1001: HEXANE

HEXANE is a cyber espionage threat group that has targeted oil & gas, telecommunications, aviation, and internet service provider organizations since at least 2017. Targeted companies have been located in the Middle East and Africa, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, and Tunisia. HEXANE's TTPs appear similar to APT33 and OilRig but due to differences in victims and tools it is tracked as a separate entity.[1][2][3][4]

GroupEnterprise

G0018: admin@338

admin@338 is a China-based cyber threat group. It has previously used newsworthy events as lures to deliver malware and has primarily targeted organizations involved in financial, economic, and trade policy, typically using publicly available RATs such as PoisonIvy, as well as some non-public backdoors. [1]

GroupEnterprise

G0114: Chimera

Chimera is a suspected China-based threat group that has been active since at least 2018 targeting the semiconductor industry in Taiwan as well as data from the airline industry.[1][2]

GroupEnterprise

G1017: Volt Typhoon

Volt Typhoon is a People's Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored actor that has been active since at least 2021, primarily targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the US and its territories including Guam. Volt Typhoon's targeting and pattern of behavior have been assessed as pre-positioning to enable lateral movement to operational technology (OT) assets for potential destructive or disruptive attacks. Volt Typhoon has emphasized stealth in operations using web shells, living-off-the-land (LOTL) binaries, hands on keyboard activities, and stolen credentials.[1][2][3][4]. The group has leveraged compromised SOHO routers to proxy command and control traffic and obscure its infrastructure, activity associated with the KV botnet.[5].

Reporting indicates a separate initial access cluster, SYLVANITE, has been observed exploiting internet-facing edge devices and transferring access to Volt Typhoon, also tracked as VOLTZITE, for follow-on operations. [6]

GroupEnterprise

G0049: OilRig

OilRig is a suspected Iranian threat group that has targeted Middle Eastern and international victims since at least 2014. The group has targeted a variety of sectors, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications. It appears the group carries out supply chain attacks, leveraging the trust relationship between organizations to attack their primary targets. The group works on behalf of the Iranian government based on infrastructure details that contain references to Iran, use of Iranian infrastructure, and targeting that aligns with nation-state interests.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

ToolEnterprise

S0692: SILENTTRINITY

SILENTTRINITY is an open source remote administration and post-exploitation framework primarily written in Python that includes stagers written in Powershell, C, and Boo. SILENTTRINITY was used in a 2019 campaign against Croatian government agencies by unidentified cyber actors.[1][2]

Windows
MalwareEnterprise

S1179: Exbyte

Exbyte is an exfiltration tool written in Go that is uniquely associated with BlackByte operations. Observed since 2022, Exbyte transfers collected files to online file sharing and hosting services.[1]

Windows
MalwareEnterprise

S0650: QakBot

QakBot is a modular banking trojan that has been used primarily by financially-motivated actors since at least 2007. QakBot is continuously maintained and developed and has evolved from an information stealer into a delivery agent for ransomware, most notably ProLock and Egregor.[1][2][3][4]

Windows
MalwareEnterprise

S0154: Cobalt Strike

Cobalt Strike is a commercial, full-featured, remote access tool that bills itself as “adversary simulation software designed to execute targeted attacks and emulate the post-exploitation actions of advanced threat actors”. Cobalt Strike’s interactive post-exploit capabilities cover the full range of ATT&CK tactics, all executed within a single, integrated system.[1]

In addition to its own capabilities, Cobalt Strike leverages the capabilities of other well-known tools such as Metasploit and Mimikatz.[1]

LinuxmacOSWindows
ToolEnterprise

S0039: Net

The Net utility is a component of the Windows operating system. It is used in command-line operations for control of users, groups, services, and network connections. [1]

Net has a great deal of functionality, [2] much of which is useful for an adversary, such as gathering system and network information for Discovery, moving laterally through SMB/Windows Admin Shares using net use commands, and interacting with services. The net1.exe utility is executed for certain functionality when net.exe is run and can be used directly in commands such as net1 user.

Windows
ToolEnterprise

S0378: PoshC2

PoshC2 is an open source remote administration and post-exploitation framework that is publicly available on GitHub. The server-side components of the tool are primarily written in Python, while the implants are written in PowerShell. Although PoshC2 is primarily focused on Windows implantation, it does contain a basic Python dropper for Linux/macOS.[1]

WindowsLinuxmacOS
MalwareEnterprise

S0265: Kazuar

Kazuar is a fully featured, multi-platform backdoor Trojan written using the Microsoft .NET framework. [1]

WindowsmacOS
CampaignEnterprise

C0015: C0015

C0015 was a ransomware intrusion during which the unidentified attackers used Bazar, Cobalt Strike, and Conti, along with other tools, over a 5 day period. Security researchers assessed the actors likely used the widely-circulated Conti ransomware playbook based on the observed pattern of activity and operator errors.[1]

CampaignEnterprise

C0014: Operation Wocao

Operation Wocao was a cyber espionage campaign that targeted organizations around the world, including in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The suspected China-based actors compromised government organizations and managed service providers, as well as aviation, construction, energy, finance, health care, insurance, offshore engineering, software development, and transportation companies.[1]

Security researchers assessed the Operation Wocao actors used similar TTPs and tools as APT20, suggesting a possible overlap. Operation Wocao was named after an observed command line entry by one of the threat actors, possibly out of frustration from losing webshell access.[1]

CampaignEnterprise

C0012: Operation CuckooBees

Operation CuckooBees was a cyber espionage campaign targeting technology and manufacturing companies in East Asia, Western Europe, and North America since at least 2019. Security researchers noted the goal of Operation CuckooBees, which was still ongoing as of May 2022, was likely the theft of proprietary information, research and development documents, source code, and blueprints for various technologies. Researchers assessed Operation CuckooBees was conducted by actors affiliated with Winnti Group, APT41, and BARIUM.[1]

CampaignEnterprise

C0061: Operation Digital Eye

Operation Digital Eye was conducted in June and July of 2024 by suspected People's Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actors targeting business-to-business IT service providers in Southern Europe. Operation Digital Eye activity included the use of Visual Studio Code tunnels for command and control (C2) and custom lateral movement capabilities. Overlaps in tooling between Digital Eye and previous China-nexus campaigns, Operation Soft Cell and Operation Tainted Love, indicate the potential use of shared vendors or digital quartermasters.[1]

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Raw source

Mirrored ATT&CK source object

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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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    Open source URL
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    Open source URL
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    Open source URL
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