{'created': '2020-02-05T14:28:16.719Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': 'Adversaries may use steganography techniques in order to '
                'prevent the detection of hidden information. Steganographic '
                'techniques can be used to hide data in digital media such as '
                'images, audio tracks, video clips, or text files.\n'
                '\n'
                '[Duqu](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0038) was an early '
                'example of malware that used steganography. It encrypted the '
                "gathered information from a victim's system and hid it within "
                'an image before exfiltrating the image to a C2 '
                'server.(Citation: Wikipedia Duqu) \n'
                '\n'
                'By the end of 2017, a threat group used\u202f'
                '<code>Invoke-PSImage</code>\u202fto hide '
                '[PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) '
                'commands in an image file (.png) and execute the code on a '
                "victim's system. In this particular case the "
                '[PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) '
                'code downloaded another obfuscated script to gather '
                "intelligence from the victim's machine and communicate it "
                'back to the adversary.(Citation: McAfee Malicious Doc Targets '
                'Pyeongchang Olympics)  ',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1027.003',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1027/003'},
                         {'description': 'Saavedra-Morales, J., Sherstobitoff, '
                                         'R. (2018, January 6). Malicious '
                                         'Document Targets Pyeongchang '
                                         'Olympics. Retrieved April 10, 2018.',
                          'source_name': 'McAfee Malicious Doc Targets '
                                         'Pyeongchang Olympics',
                          'url': 'https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/malicious-document-targets-pyeongchang-olympics/'},
                         {'description': 'Wikipedia. (2017, December 29). '
                                         'Duqu. Retrieved April 10, 2018.',
                          'source_name': 'Wikipedia Duqu',
                          'url': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duqu'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--c2e147a9-d1a8-4074-811a-d8789202d916',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'defense-evasion'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:49:20.395Z',
 'name': 'Steganography',
 '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': ['Linux', 'macOS', 'Windows'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.2'}

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