---
id: "mitre_attack_technique_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["software"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/mitre_attack_technique_id"
---

# MITRE ATT&CK technique ID (`mitre_attack_technique_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a technique in MITRE ATT&CK, the knowledge base of adversary behavior: T followed by four digits. A sub-technique adds a dot and three digits, so T1059.001 (PowerShell) is a sub-technique of T1059 (Command and Scripting Interpreter). The Enterprise, Mobile and ICS matrices share the format.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Software development (software)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^T[0-9]{4}(?:\.[0-9]{3})?$
```

## Examples

- `T1059` — Command and Scripting Interpreter
- `T1059.001` — PowerShell, a sub-technique of T1059
- `T1059.1` (invalid example) — Sub-technique part needs three digits
- `TA0001` (invalid example) — Tactic ID

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATT%26CK>
- doc: <https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001>
- other: <https://github.com/mitre-attack/attack-stix-data>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/mitre_attack_technique_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/software/mitre_attack_technique_id.yaml>