MITRE ATT&CK CoA - T1133 - External Remote Services

This Playbook is part of the MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action Pack.#

Supported versions

Supported Cortex XSOAR versions: 6.5.0 and later.

This playbook Remediates the External Remote Services technique using intelligence-driven Courses of Action (COA) defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team.

***Disclaimer: This playbook does not simulate an attack using the specified technique, but follows the steps to remediation as defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team’s Actionable Threat Objects and Mitigations (ATOMs). Techniques Handled:

T1133: External Remote Services

Kill Chain phases:

Persistence
Initial Access

MITRE ATT&CK Description:

Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. Without knowledge of the password for an account or set of accounts, an adversary may systematically guess the password using a repetitive or iterative mechanism. Brute forcing passwords can take place via interaction with a service that will check the validity of those credentials or offline against previously acquired credential data, such as password hashes.

Possible playbook uses:

The playbook can be used independently to handle and remediate the specific technique.
The playbook can be used as a part of the “Courses of Action - Defense Evasion” playbook to remediate techniques based on the kill chain phase.
The playbook can be used as a part of the “MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action” playbook, which can be triggered by different sources and accepts the technique MITRE ATT&CK ID as an input.

Dependencies#

This playbook uses the following sub-playbooks, integrations, and scripts.

Sub-playbooks#

PAN-OS - Enforce Vulnerability Protection Best Practices Profile

Integrations#

This playbook does not use any integrations.

Scripts#

IsIntegrationAvailable
Set
SetGridField

Commands#

This playbook does not use any commands.

Playbook Inputs#

Name	Description	Required
pre_post	Rules location. Can be 'pre-rulebase' or 'post-rulebase'. Mandatory for Panorama instances.	Optional
device-group	The device group for which to return addresses (Panorama instances).	Optional
tag	Tag for which to filter the results.	Optional

Playbook Outputs#

Path	Description	Type
Handled.Techniques	The techniques handled in this playbook	string

Playbook Image#

MITRE ATT&CK CoA - T1133 - External Remote Services