CAPEC-694: System Location Discovery
Description
An adversary collects information about the target system in an attempt to identify the system's geographical location. Information gathered could include keyboard layout, system language, and timezone. This information may benefit an adversary in confirming the desired target and/or tailoring further attacks.
- Likelihood of attack
- High
- Typical severity
- Very Low
- Abstraction
- StandardA specific methodology or technique used in an attack.
Mechanism of attack: Collect and Analyze Information
Prerequisites
- The adversary must have some level of access to the system and have a basic understanding of the operating system in order to query the appropriate sources for relevant information.
Skills required
- LowThe adversary must know how to query various system sources of information respective of the system's operating system to obtain the relevant information.
Consequences
- Confidentiality
Read Data
Mitigations
- To reduce the amount of information gathered, one could disable various geolocation features of the operating system not required for system operation.
Related weaknesses (CWE)
ATT&CK techniques (CAPEC taxonomy mapping)
Across MITRE's defensive frameworks
Linked through the 1 ATT&CK technique above.
Counter with D3FEND
Defensive techniques MITRE D3FEND maps to the same ATT&CK techniques.