Domain Fronting
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004",
"title": "Domain Fronting",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1090/004",
"snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
"status": "active",
"rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
"review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
"stix_id": "attack-pattern--ca9d3402-ada3-484d-876a-d717bd6e05f2",
"external_id": "T1090.004",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-03-14T23:29:19.581Z",
"modified": "2025-10-24T17:49:23.135Z",
"version": "1.2",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"command-and-control"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "Fifield Blocking Resistent Communication through domain fronting 2015",
"url": "http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/meek-PETS-2015.pdf"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (7)
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ATTACK:enterprise:S0154 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--0023f0a7-26ae-40ec-ac6e-9dacf5217fb9
Cobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020ATTACK:enterprise:G0016 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--27e7f34e-9750-4cf0-8260-33f2996ee38c
Mandiant No Easy BreachATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1090
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--2cf3d3a5-85ab-43d9-8462-684469f79c6a
ATTACK:enterprise:M1020 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--2d63a9e6-9be2-44ea-8276-89ae92049509
ATTACK:enterprise:S0175 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--b1334535-019a-4d6a-88c1-8bb6741f152b
ATTACK:enterprise:S0699 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--f0d8c9a9-48bb-4369-9631-f33fe2aa189e
Mythc DocumentationATTACK:enterprise:S0649 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1090.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--f1e3ae26-843a-4094-a8df-aef50d983b54
FireEye SMOKEDHAM June 2021