T1608.004sub-technique of T1608 Stage Capabilities

Drive-by Target

PREnothing on this site yetT1608.004 on attack.mitre.org

Adversaries may prepare an operational environment to infect systems that visit a website over the normal course of browsing. Endpoint systems may be compromised through browsing to adversary controlled sites, as in Drive-by Compromise.
MITRE ATT&CK 19.2, retrieved 2026-09-12

how MITRE says to see it

Detection of Drive-by Target

If infrastructure or patterns in the malicious web content utilized to deliver a Drive-by Compromise have been previously identified, internet scanning may uncover when an adversary has staged web content for use in a strategic web compromise.

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.

the rest of T1608

T1608.001 Upload Malware · not covered yet
T1608.002 Upload Tool · not covered yet
T1608.003 Install Digital Certificate · not covered yet
T1608.005 Link Target · not covered yet
T1608.006 SEO Poisoning · not covered yet

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