T1585

Establish Accounts

PREnothing on this site yetT1585 on attack.mitre.org

Adversaries may create and cultivate accounts with services that can be used during targeting. Adversaries can create accounts that can be used to build a persona to further operations. Persona development consists of the development of public information, presence, history and appropriate affiliations.
MITRE ATT&CK 19.2, retrieved 2026-09-12

how MITRE says to see it

Detection of Establish Accounts

Monitor and analyze traffic patterns and packet inspection associated to protocol(s) that do not follow the expected protocol standards and traffic flows (e.g extraneous packets that do not belong to established flows, gratuitous or anomalous traffic patterns, anomalous syntax, or structure).

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.

sub-techniques

T1585.001 Social Media Accounts · not covered yet
T1585.002 Email Accounts · not covered yet
T1585.003 Cloud Accounts · not covered yet

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