Software Extensions
Technique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1176",
"title": "Software Extensions",
"type": "Technique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1176",
"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--389735f1-f21c-4208-b8f0-f8031e7169b8",
"external_id": "T1176",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2018-01-16T16:13:52.465Z",
"modified": "2025-10-24T17:48:39.525Z",
"version": "2.0",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"persistence"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "Abramovsky VSCode Security",
"url": "https://blog.checkpoint.com/securing-the-cloud/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-more-than-45k-downloads-steal-pii-and-enable-backdoors/"
},
{
"source_name": "xorrior chrome extensions macOS",
"url": "https://www.xorrior.com/No-Place-Like-Chrome/"
},
{
"source_name": "Chrome Extension C2 Malware",
"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240608001937/https://kjaer.io/extension-malware/"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (7)
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ATTACK:enterprise:M1033 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--3ef90224-3e8f-493c-9817-a35dbb815a0f
ATTACK:enterprise:M1047 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a22dffc4-ff73-4845-895a-ecd21e8549b2
ATTACK:enterprise:M1017 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--addd3fbe-3ab2-4086-a367-af369db04eb7
ATTACK:enterprise:M1051 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--c6e638c6-3ca6-460b-a43f-b11e277f8258
ATTACK:enterprise:M1038 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--dca371d8-d551-4848-bab1-e738a47b0acd
ATTACK:enterprise:T1176.002 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--e87763bc-3873-4fc4-afa6-7d4aed8d839f
ATTACK:enterprise:T1176.001 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1176
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--fc046f12-3a4e-431a-a560-add616f90138