{'created': '2020-03-15T00:30:25.444Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': 'Adversaries may add junk data to protocols used for command '
                'and control to make detection more difficult.(Citation: '
                'FireEye SUNBURST Backdoor December 2020) By adding random or '
                'meaningless data to the protocols used for command and '
                'control, adversaries can prevent trivial methods for '
                'decoding, deciphering, or otherwise analyzing the traffic. '
                'Examples may include appending/prepending data with junk '
                'characters or writing junk characters between significant '
                'characters. ',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1001.001',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1001/001'},
                         {'description': 'FireEye. (2020, December 13). Highly '
                                         'Evasive Attacker Leverages '
                                         'SolarWinds Supply Chain to '
                                         'Compromise Multiple Global Victims '
                                         'With SUNBURST Backdoor. Retrieved '
                                         'January 4, 2021.',
                          'source_name': 'FireEye SUNBURST Backdoor December '
                                         '2020',
                          'url': 'https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html'},
                         {'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'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--f7c0689c-4dbd-489b-81be-7cb7c7079ade',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'command-and-control'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:49:38.011Z',
 'name': 'Junk Data',
 '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': ['ESXi', 'Linux', 'macOS', 'Windows'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.1'}