Time Providers
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1547.003
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1547.003",
"title": "Time Providers",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1547/003",
"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--61afc315-860c-4364-825d-0d62b2e91edc",
"external_id": "T1547.003",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-01-24T15:51:52.317Z",
"modified": "2025-10-24T17:48:51.278Z",
"version": "1.2",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"persistence",
"privilege-escalation"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "Github W32Time Oct 2017",
"url": "https://github.com/scottlundgren/w32time"
},
{
"source_name": "Microsoft W32Time May 2017",
"url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/networking/windows-time-service/windows-time-service-tools-and-settings"
},
{
"source_name": "Microsoft W32Time Feb 2018",
"url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/networking/windows-time-service/windows-time-service-top"
},
{
"source_name": "Microsoft TimeProvider",
"url": "https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/ms725475.aspx"
},
{
"source_name": "TechNet Autoruns",
"url": "https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (3)
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ATTACK:enterprise:M1024 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1547.003
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--08f53e1a-7326-48ed-ac0e-2b0af2d93985
Microsoft W32Time May 2017ATTACK:enterprise:M1022 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1547.003
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--328fdf30-3195-4d15-b99c-bf14cc236a90
Microsoft W32Time May 2017ATTACK:enterprise:T1547.003 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1547
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--c535d995-bafd-47a3-9417-26e2e1080eb7