The study of APT attack stage model

Abstract

Recent years people have witnessed a surge of interest in APT attack, due to its complex and persistent attack characteristics. In order to prevent APT attacks, this article studies and analyzes a large number of APT attack cases which have been disclosed, gives an overview of APT attack lifecycle and attack techniques. This paper discusses the purposes of APT attacks and APT attack characteristics in each stage, and proposes the concept of APT attack stage model from the authors own work.