Objective
Design a safe, controlled emulation plan for APT29 techniques to validate blue team detections without impacting production systems.
Scope
- Map techniques to MITRE ATT&CK: Initial Access, Defense Evasion, Exfiltration.
- Establish guardrails: controlled hosts, non-destructive payloads, logging-only operations.
- Define success criteria: alerts fired, correlation accuracy, false positive rate.
Technique Examples
- T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter: benign PowerShell beacon emitting logs for EDR validation.
- T1021 - Remote Services: simulated lateral movement events with locked-down credentials.
- T1041 - Exfiltration Over C2: mock data exfil to sinkhole endpoint; verify DLP/IDS triggers.
Detections & Telemetry
Prioritize host EDR, Windows Event Logs (Sysmon), network IDS, and SIEM correlation. Build dashboards for rapid validation and RCA.
Outcomes
Runbooks updated with validated detections, improved triage flow, and documented false positives with tuning recommendations.