Adversaries may exfiltrate data, such as sensitive documents, through the use of automated processing after being gathered during Collection.(Citation: ESET Gamaredon June 2020) When automated exfiltration is used, other exfiltration techniques likely apply as well to transfer the information out of the network, such as Exfiltration Over C2 Channel and Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol.
Observation of LaunchAgents or LaunchDaemons establishing periodic external connections indicative of automated data transfer.
Background scripts (e.g., via cron) or daemons transmitting data repeatedly to remote IPs or URLs.
Detection of automated tools or scripts periodically transmitting data to external destinations using scheduled tasks or background processes.