AppCert DLLs
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1546.009
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1546.009",
"title": "AppCert DLLs",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/009",
"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--7d57b371-10c2-45e5-b3cc-83a8fb380e4c",
"external_id": "T1546.009",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-01-24T14:47:41.795Z",
"modified": "2025-10-24T17:49:00.663Z",
"version": "1.1",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"privilege-escalation",
"persistence"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "Elastic Process Injection July 2017",
"url": "https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/ten-process-injection-techniques-technical-survey-common-and-trending-process"
},
{
"source_name": "Sysinternals AppCertDlls Oct 2007",
"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130401232752/https://forum.sysinternals.com/appcertdlls_topic12546.html"
},
{
"source_name": "TechNet Autoruns",
"url": "https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (3)
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ATTACK:enterprise:S0196 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1546.009
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--1177ad8a-d57f-4882-be1f-c327e08017d2
FireEye Know Your Enemy FIN8 Aug 2016ATTACK:enterprise:T1546.009 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1546
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a72f9e78-41af-40c7-bce3-9e1e21d956e2
ATTACK:enterprise:M1038 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1546.009
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--db8a5d74-11f0-4773-aae8-43a0a6f85f61
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