{'created': '2017-05-31T21:30:18.931Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': 'Adversaries may obfuscate command and control traffic to make '
                'it more difficult to detect.(Citation: Bitdefender FunnyDream '
                'Campaign November 2020) Command and control (C2) '
                'communications are hidden (but not necessarily encrypted) in '
                'an attempt to make the content more difficult to discover or '
                'decipher and to make the communication less conspicuous and '
                'hide commands from being seen. This encompasses many methods, '
                'such as adding junk data to protocol traffic, using '
                'steganography, or impersonating legitimate protocols. ',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1001',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1001'},
                         {'description': 'Gardiner, J.,  Cova, M., Nagaraja, '
                                         'S. (2014, February). Command & '
                                         'Control Understanding, Denying and '
                                         'Detecting. Retrieved April 20, 2016.',
                          'source_name': 'University of Birmingham C2',
                          'url': 'https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1408/1408.1136.pdf'},
                         {'description': 'Vrabie, V. (2020, November). '
                                         'Dissecting a Chinese APT Targeting '
                                         'South Eastern Asian Government '
                                         'Institutions. Retrieved September '
                                         '19, 2022.',
                          'source_name': 'Bitdefender FunnyDream Campaign '
                                         'November 2020',
                          'url': 'https://www.bitdefender.com/files/News/CaseStudies/study/379/Bitdefender-Whitepaper-Chinese-APT.pdf'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--ad255bfe-a9e6-4b52-a258-8d3462abe842',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'command-and-control'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:49:13.380Z',
 'name': 'Data Obfuscation',
 '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': False,
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_platforms': ['ESXi', 'Linux', 'macOS', 'Windows'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.2'}