Has used a PowerShell script to capture user credentials after prompting a user to authenticate to run a malicious script masquerading as a legitimate update item.1
Input Capture T1056
- Tactics
- Credential Access, Collection
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Network Devices, Windows
- Version
- 1.4
- Created
- 31 May 2017
- Last modified
- 24 October 2025
- Contributor
- John Lambert, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center
Adversaries may use methods of capturing user input to obtain credentials or collect information. During normal system usage, users often provide credentials to various different locations, such as login pages/portals or system dialog boxes. Input capture mechanisms may be transparent to the user (e.g. Credential API Hooking) or rely on deceiving the user into providing input into what they believe to be a genuine service (e.g. Web Portal Capture).