{'created': '2019-12-19T20:21:21.669Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': 'Adversaries may modify component firmware to persist on '
                'systems. Some adversaries may employ sophisticated means to '
                'compromise computer components and install malicious firmware '
                'that will execute adversary code outside of the operating '
                'system and main system firmware or BIOS. This technique may '
                'be similar to [System '
                'Firmware](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1542/001) but '
                'conducted upon other system components/devices that may not '
                'have the same capability or level of integrity checking.\n'
                '\n'
                'Malicious component firmware could provide both a persistent '
                'level of access to systems despite potential typical failures '
                'to maintain access and hard disk re-images, as well as a way '
                'to evade host software-based defenses and integrity checks.',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1542.002',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1542/002'},
                         {'description': 'Pinola, M. (2014, December 14). 3 '
                                         "tools to check your hard drive's "
                                         "health and make sure it's not "
                                         'already dying on you. Retrieved '
                                         'November 17, 2024.',
                          'source_name': 'ITWorld Hard Disk Health Dec 2014',
                          'url': 'https://www.computerworld.com/article/1484887/3-tools-to-check-your-hard-drives-health-and-make-sure-its-not-already-dying-on-you.html'},
                         {'description': 'SanDisk. (n.d.). Self-Monitoring, '
                                         'Analysis and Reporting Technology '
                                         '(S.M.A.R.T.). Retrieved October 2, '
                                         '2018.',
                          'source_name': 'SanDisk SMART'},
                         {'description': 'smartmontools. (n.d.). '
                                         'smartmontools. Retrieved October 2, '
                                         '2018.',
                          'source_name': 'SmartMontools',
                          'url': 'https://www.smartmontools.org/'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--791481f8-e96a-41be-b089-a088763083d4',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'persistence'},
                       {'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'defense-evasion'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:48:59.147Z',
 'name': 'Component Firmware',
 'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
 'revoked': False,
 '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': True,
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_platforms': ['Windows', 'Linux', 'macOS'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.2'}