| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| T1606.001 | Web Cookies |
| T1606.002 | SAML Tokens |
Adversaries may forge web cookies that can be used to gain access to web applications or Internet services. Web applications and services (hosted in cloud SaaS environments or on-premise servers) often use session cookies to authenticate and authorize user access.
Adversaries may generate these cookies in order to gain access to web resources. This differs from Steal Web Session Cookie and other similar behaviors in that the cookies are new and forged by the adversary, rather than stolen or intercepted from legitimate users. Most common web applications have standardized and documented cookie values that can be generated using provided tools or interfaces.[1] The generation of web cookies often requires secret values, such as passwords, Private Keys, or other cryptographic seed values.
Once forged, adversaries may use these web cookies to access resources (Web Session Cookie), which may bypass multi-factor and other authentication protection mechanisms.[2][1][3]
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C0024 | SolarWinds Compromise |
During the SolarWinds Compromise, APT29 bypassed MFA set on OWA accounts by generating a cookie value from a previously stolen secret key.[2] |
| ID | Mitigation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| M1047 | Audit |
Administrators should perform an audit of all access lists and the permissions they have been granted to access web applications and services. This should be done extensively on all resources in order to establish a baseline, followed up on with periodic audits of new or updated resources. Suspicious accounts/credentials should be investigated and removed. |
| M1054 | Software Configuration |
Configure browsers/applications to regularly delete persistent web cookies. |
| ID | Data Source | Data Component | Detects |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS0028 | Logon Session | Logon Session Creation |
Monitor for anomalous authentication activity, such as logons or other user session activity associated with unknown accounts. Monitor for unexpected and abnormal access to resources, including access of websites and cloud-based applications by the same user in different locations or by different systems that do not match expected configurations. |
| DS0006 | Web Credential | Web Credential Usage |
Monitor for the usage of unexpected or unusual cookies to access resources and services. Forged web cookies may be associated with unknown accounts and could be the result of compromised secrets such as passwords or Private Keys. |