T1583.008sub-technique of T1583 Acquire Infrastructure

Malvertising

PREnothing on this site yetT1583.008 on attack.mitre.org

Adversaries may purchase online advertisements that can be abused to distribute malware to victims. Ads can be purchased to plant as well as favorably position artifacts in specific locations online, such as prominently placed within search engine results. These ads may make it more difficult for users to distinguish between actual search results and advertisements.
MITRE ATT&CK 19.2, retrieved 2026-09-12

how MITRE says to see it

Detection of Malvertising

If infrastructure or patterns in the malicious web content related to malvertising have been previously identified, internet scanning may uncover when an adversary has staged malicious web content.

what reduces it

M1056 Pre-compromise. This technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on behaviors performed outside of the scope of enterprise defenses and controls. Efforts should be focused on initial access activities, such as drive by compromise where ad blocking adblockers can help prevent malicious code from executing.

the rest of T1583

T1583.001 Domains · not covered yet
T1583.002 DNS Server · not covered yet
T1583.003 Virtual Private Server · not covered yet
T1583.004 Server · not covered yet
T1583.005 Botnet · not covered yet
T1583.006 Web Services · not covered yet
T1583.007 Serverless · not covered yet

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