Hidden Users
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1564.002
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1564.002",
"title": "Hidden Users",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1564/002",
"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--8c4aef43-48d5-49aa-b2af-c0cd58d30c3d",
"external_id": "T1564.002",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-03-13T20:12:40.876Z",
"modified": "2026-05-12T15:12:00.705Z",
"version": "2.0",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"stealth"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "Cybereason OSX Pirrit",
"url": "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3354902/Content%20PDFs/Cybereason-Lab-Analysis-OSX-Pirrit-4-6-16.pdf"
},
{
"source_name": "Apple Support Hide a User Account",
"url": "https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203998"
},
{
"source_name": "FireEye SMOKEDHAM June 2021",
"url": "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/06/darkside-affiliate-supply-chain-software-compromise.html"
},
{
"source_name": "Hide GDM User Accounts",
"url": "https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/06/hide-user-accounts-ubuntu-20-04-login-screen/"
},
{
"source_name": "US-CERT TA18-074A",
"url": "https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (5)
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ATTACK:enterprise:G0035 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1564.002
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--0ec90a7b-2ba7-4d7e-ac41-c5fdcf9e8046
US-CERT TA18-074AATTACK:enterprise:S0649 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1564.002
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--2fd6ac0b-f091-4cd0-a6ad-6b476e980fad
FireEye SMOKEDHAM June 2021ATTACK:enterprise:T1564.002 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1564
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--33d1d2c7-fe6e-43c0-a78a-40ec218d0895
ATTACK:enterprise:G0094 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1564.002
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--4b889a3a-289f-444f-946d-b8bc2dd16627
KISA Operation MuzabiATTACK:enterprise:M1028 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1564.002
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a45378ad-7f38-47d3-87e1-a3133b29b89b