XSL Script Processing

Technique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1220

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{
  "id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1220",
  "title": "XSL Script Processing",
  "type": "Technique",
  "source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1220",
  "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--ebbe170d-aa74-4946-8511-9921243415a3",
  "external_id": "T1220",
  "domain": "enterprise",
  "created": "2018-10-17T00:14:20.652Z",
  "modified": "2026-05-12T15:12:00.723Z",
  "version": "2.0",
  "aliases": [

  ],
  "tactics": [
    "stealth"
  ],
  "source_references": [
    {
      "source_name": "Reaqta MSXSL Spearphishing MAR 2018",
      "url": "https://reaqta.com/2018/03/spear-phishing-campaign-leveraging-msxsl/"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "LOLBAS Wmic",
      "url": "https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Wmic/"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "Microsoft msxsl.exe",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190508171106/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21714"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "Penetration Testing Lab MSXSL July 2017",
      "url": "https://pentestlab.blog/2017/07/06/applocker-bypass-msxsl/"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "XSL Bypass Mar 2019",
      "url": "https://medium.com/@threathuntingteam/msxsl-exe-and-wmic-exe-a-way-to-proxy-code-execution-8d524f642b75"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "Microsoft XSLT Script Mar 2017",
      "url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/standard/data/xml/xslt-stylesheet-scripting-using-msxsl-script"
    }
  ]
}

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