Quishing Mirage: The Hidden Dangers of Microsoft Sway and QR Code Phishing
A sophisticated phishing campaign has emerged, leveraging Microsoft's Sway platform to deliver deceptive QR code-based attacks, commonly referred to as "quishing." This campaign capitalizes on the trust users place in Microsoft-branded services and the rising trend of QR code usage to trick victims into clicking malicious links. The multi-layered attack aims to bypass traditional email security measures, making it particularly dangerous and challenging to detect.
Indicators of Compromise
Domains (6)
nettis365.xyzffnthost365.cfdlogin.msofficeopt.nlgdu.msofficeopt.nlmsntntion0.cfdsway.cloud.microsoftNotes
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5faf6fc7-7fff-eace-25a2-82b09c05a23d"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">CONCLUSION</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft Sway is a cloud application designed to share ideas in a creative way. Recently, there has been a significant increase in traffic to malicious Sway pages that redirect users to phishing sites using QR codes. To avoid detection, attackers have employed techniques such as Cloudflare Turnstile, which prevents phishing payloads from being exposed to crawlers or static URL scanners. Additionally, these phishing campaigns are using transparent phishing methods to collect credentials and potentially bypass MFA. Security teams who were previously blocking access to Microsoft Sway should be aware that the domain has changed and should update their security controls accordingly.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">To protect against these evolving threats, we recommend utilizing our </span><a href="https://socradar.io/solutions/phishing-domain-detection/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Phishing Domain Detector</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> available on our platform, which is designed to help you detect and block malicious domains before they can cause harm.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div></span>
Mitigation
<span id="docs-internal-guid-ee09d096-7fff-02eb-5064-f8dad3d4beab"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt -11pt;"></p><div style="margin-left:0pt;" align="left"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5432345-7fff-6eda-2542-68a9cbff3465"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">MITIGATION</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.01562em;">Phishing</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt -11pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sub-techniques (4)</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div></span><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse;"><colgroup><col><col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:41.5pt;"><td style="border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">ID</span></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;vertical-align:bottom;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Name</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:43pt;"><td style="border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/001/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">T1566.001</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/001/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Spearphishing Attachment</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:42.25pt;"><td style="border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/002/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">T1566.002</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/002/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Spearphishing Link</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:42.25pt;"><td style="border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/003/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">T1566.003</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/003/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Spearphishing via Service</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:42.25pt;"><td style="border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/004/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">T1566.004</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: -11pt;margin-right: -11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/004/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Spearphishing Voice</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Adversaries may send phishing messages to gain access to victim systems. All forms of phishing are electronically delivered social engineering. Phishing can be targeted, known as spearphishing. In spearphishing, a specific individual, company, or industry will be targeted by the adversary. More generally, adversaries can conduct non-targeted phishing, such as in mass malware spam campaigns.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Adversaries may send victims emails containing malicious attachments or links, typically to execute malicious code on victim systems. Phishing may also be conducted via third-party services, like social media platforms. Phishing may also involve social engineering techniques, such as posing as a trusted source, as well as evasive techniques such as removing or manipulating emails or metadata/headers from compromised accounts being abused to send messages (e.g., </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1564/008"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Email Hiding Rules</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">).</span><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/09/22/malicious-oauth-applications-used-to-compromise-email-servers-and-spread-spam/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</span></a><a href="https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/examining-vba-initiated-infostealer-campaign/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> Another way to accomplish this is by forging or spoofing</span><a href="https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-reference/email-spoofing"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> the identity of the sender which can be used to fool both the human recipient as well as automated security tools.</span><a href="https://blog.cyberproof.com/blog/double-bounced-attacks-with-email-spoofing-2022-trends"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[4]</span></a></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Victims may also receive phishing messages that instruct them to call a phone number where they are directed to visit a malicious URL, download malware,</span><a href="https://blog.sygnia.co/luna-moth-false-subscription-scams"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[5]</span></a><a href="https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa23-025a"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[6]</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> or install adversary-accessible remote management tools onto their computer (i.e., </span><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1204"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">User Execution</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 67, 76); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">).</span><a href="https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/luna-moth-callback-phishing/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[7]</span></a></p><br><br><div style="margin-left:0pt;" align="left"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse;"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:37.75pt;"><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">ID</span></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Mitigation</span></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Description</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:43pt;"><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1049"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">M1049</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1049"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Antivirus/Antimalware</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dee2e6 1.5pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Anti-virus can automatically quarantine suspicious files.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:42.25pt;"><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1047"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">M1047</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1047"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Audit</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Perform audits or scans of systems, permissions, insecure software, insecure configurations, etc. to identify potential weaknesses.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:55.75pt;"><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1031"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">M1031</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1031"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Network Intrusion Prevention</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Network intrusion prevention systems and systems designed to scan and remove malicious email attachments or links can be used to block activity.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:55.75pt;"><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1021"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">M1021</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1021"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Restrict Web-Based Content</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Determine if certain websites or attachment types (ex: .scr, .exe, .pif, .cpl, etc.) that can be used for phishing are necessary for business operations and consider blocking access if activity cannot be monitored well or if it poses a significant risk.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:69.25pt;"><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1054"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">M1054</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1054"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Software Configuration</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Use anti-spoofing and email authentication mechanisms to filter messages based on validity checks of the sender domain (using SPF) and integrity of messages (using DKIM). Enabling these mechanisms within an organization (through policies such as DMARC) may enable recipients (intra-org and cross domain) to perform similar message filtering and validation.</span><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/anti-spoofing-protection?view=o365-worldwide"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[14]</span></a><a href="https://www.cyber.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-03/spoof_email_sender_policy_framework.pdf"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[15]</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:42.25pt;"><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1017"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">M1017</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://attack.mitre.org/mitigations/M1017"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 124, 172); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">User Training</span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-right:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;border-top:solid #dfdfdf 0.75pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Users can be trained to identify social engineering techniques and phishing emails.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span>