{'created': '2018-04-18T17:59:24.739Z',
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 'description': 'Spearphishing attachment is a specific variant of '
                'spearphishing. Spearphishing attachment is different from '
                'other forms of spearphishing in that it employs the use of '
                'malware attached to an email. All forms of spearphishing are '
                'electronically delivered social engineering targeted at a '
                'specific individual, company, or industry. In this scenario, '
                'adversaries attach a file to the spearphishing email and '
                'usually rely upon [User '
                'Execution](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1204) to gain '
                'execution.\n'
                '\n'
                'There are many options for the attachment such as Microsoft '
                'Office documents, executables, PDFs, or archived files. Upon '
                'opening the attachment (and potentially clicking past '
                "protections), the adversary's payload exploits a "
                "vulnerability or directly executes on the user's system. The "
                'text of the spearphishing email usually tries to give a '
                'plausible reason why the file should be opened, and may '
                'explain how to bypass system protections in order to do so. '
                'The email may also contain instructions on how to decrypt an '
                'attachment, such as a zip file password, in order to evade '
                'email boundary defenses. Adversaries frequently manipulate '
                'file extensions and icons in order to make attached '
                'executables appear to be document files, or files exploiting '
                'one application appear to be a file for a different one.',
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                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1193'},
                         {'external_id': 'CAPEC-163',
                          'source_name': 'capec',
                          'url': 'https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/163.html'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--6aac77c4-eaf2-4366-8c13-ce50ab951f38',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'initial-access'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:48:54.835Z',
 'name': 'Spearphishing Attachment',
 'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
 'revoked': True,
 'spec_version': '2.1',
 'type': 'attack-pattern',
 'x_mitre_attack_spec_version': '3.2.0',
 'x_mitre_deprecated': False,
 'x_mitre_detection': '',
 'x_mitre_domains': ['enterprise-attack'],
 'x_mitre_is_subtechnique': False,
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_platforms': ['Windows', 'macOS', 'Linux'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.1'}