SSH Hijacking
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001",
"title": "SSH Hijacking",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1563/001",
"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--4d2a5b3e-340d-4600-9123-309dd63c9bf8",
"external_id": "T1563.001",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-02-25T18:34:38.290Z",
"modified": "2025-10-24T17:48:45.240Z",
"version": "1.1",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"lateral-movement"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "SSHjack Blackhat",
"url": "https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-05/bh-us-05-boileau.pdf"
},
{
"source_name": "Clockwork SSH Agent Hijacking",
"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210311184303/https://www.clockwork.com/news/2012/09/28/602/ssh_agent_hijacking/"
},
{
"source_name": "Slideshare Abusing SSH",
"url": "https://www.slideshare.net/morisson/mistrusting-and-abusing-ssh-13526219"
},
{
"source_name": "Breach Post-mortem SSH Hijack",
"url": "https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/08/post-mortem-and-remediations-for-apr-11-security-incident/"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (6)
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ATTACK:enterprise:S1220 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--0ee71693-05c6-4493-90cb-c6fb2a2c4683
Google Cloud Mandiant UNC3886 2024ATTACK:enterprise:M1022 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--7b191418-e24b-4db1-98e1-a7ee56b271f6
ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1563
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--7f306f1f-bd04-460f-929a-621f458dcd04
ATTACK:enterprise:M1042 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--99ea03d5-6c11-4f5e-9ab1-13ee0f4fca43
Symantec SSH and ssh-agentATTACK:enterprise:M1027 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a58b2f24-9fa1-4dd6-9977-7c201fbfe5ed
ATTACK:enterprise:M1026 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1563.001
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--e4f247ea-4fd6-44c0-9d19-19477fadcb52