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THE HUNTER’S LEDGER
ATT&CK Technique · Credential Access
T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
Mapped by 2 reports, 5 detection rules and 2 tracked actors on The Hunters Ledger. Technique page on attack.mitre.org.

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Reports

Each report maps this technique in its own ATT&CK table, at the confidence the report states. The link opens that table.

Report Aug 2026 · under Credential Access · HIGH
The Middle Tier: A Non-APT Operator's Reach Into Four Southeast Asian Governments
Report Jul 2026 · under Credential Access · DEFINITE
Enough to Be Dangerous: The Mechanics of an LLM-Assisted Intrusion Campaign

Detection rules

Rules whose ATT&CK coverage line names this technique, by detection page. The link opens the page's coverage table.

Detection rules Aug 2026 · 3 rules
The Middle Tier: A Non-APT Operator's Reach Into Four Southeast Asian Governments
Tableau Server Vizportal SSRF via getViewThumbnail or fetchBinary (SIGMA, Detection); GenAI Chatbot API SSRF to Cloud Instance Metadata Service (SIGMA, Detection); Outbound Connection to Cloud Instance Metadata Service Address (SIGMA, Hunting)
Detection rules Jul 2026 · 2 rules
Enough to Be Dangerous: The Mechanics of an LLM-Assisted Intrusion Campaign
XXE-to-SSRF Internal/Cloud-Metadata Probe (YARA, Detection); XXE Entity Declaration Targeting Cloud Metadata in Upload (SURICATA, Detection)

Tracked actors

Designations whose reports map this technique.

  • UTA-2026-018: Hands-on-keyboard operator exploiting four Southeast Asian governments with a bespoke edge-device toolkit
  • UTA-2026-019: Grey-market personal-data harvester running scores of LLM-assisted attack scripts against Chinese consumer platforms

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