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T0881 Service StopCAUTION

skills/cyberstrikeus/t0881-service-stop

Agent skill by cyberstrikeus · agents · ai hacking · ai penetration testing · Audited 2026-10-18

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Open-source AI-powered offensive security harness for automated penetration testing.

Verdict

CAUTION

Grade

Trust score

89 /100

Version

18.1

Hosts

—

License

AGPL-3.0

Stars

3,185

Overview

Open-source AI-powered offensive security harness for automated penetration testing.

Read from source at commit eaf7d03223fcOBSERVED · 2026-10-18

What it tells the agent

The instruction file, verbatim from the audited commit — this is the text the model reads, and the surface the audit's instruction layer examines. Quoted here so you can judge it without cloning anything.

---
name: "T0881_service-stop"
description: "Adversaries may stop or disable services on a system to render those services unavailable to legitimate users."
category: "business-logic"
version: "18.1"
author: "cyberstrike-official"
tags:
  - mitre-attack
  - ics
  - t0881
  - inhibit-response-function
technique_id: "T0881"
tactic: "inhibit-response-function"
all_tactics:
  - inhibit-response-function
platforms:
  - ICS
mitre_url: "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T0881"
tech_stack:
  - ics
cwe_ids:
  - CWE-400
chains_with: []
prerequisites: []
severity_boost: {}
---

# T0881 Service Stop

## High-Level Description

Adversaries may stop or disable services on a system to render those services unavailable to legitimate users. Stopping critical services can inhibit or stop response to an incident or aid in the adversary's overall objectives to cause damage to the environment. Services may not allow for modification of their data stores while running. Adversaries may stop services in order to conduct Data Destruction.

## Kill Chain Phase

- Inhibit Response Function (TA0107)

**Platforms:** ICS

## What to Check

- [ ] Identify if Service Stop technique is applicable to target ICS environment
- [ ] Check ICS/SCADA systems for indicators of Service Stop
- [ ] Verify mitigations are bypassed or absent (4 known mitigations)
- [ ] Assess detection coverage (1 detection strategies)

## How to Test

### Identify Attack Surface

Determine if the target ICS/SCADA environment is susceptible to Service Stop by examining operational technology systems and network architecture.

### Assess Existing Defenses

Review whether mitigations for T0881 are in place. If defenses are absent or misconfigured, this technique may be exploitable in the ICS environment.

## Remediation Guide

### M0918 User Account Management

Limit privileges of user accounts and groups so that only authorized administrators can change service states and configurations.

### M0924 Restrict Registry Permissions

Ensure proper registry permissions are in place to inhibit adversaries from disabling or interfering with critical services.

### M0922 Restrict File and Directory Permissions

Ensure proper process and file permissions are in place to inhibit adversaries from disabling or interfering with critical services.

### M0930 Network Segmentation

Segment operational network and systems to restrict access to critical system functions to predetermined management systems.

## Detection

### Detection of Service Stop

## Risk Assessment

| Finding                           | Severity | Impact                    |
| --------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------- |
| Service Stop technique applicable | High     | Inhibit Response Function |

## CWE Categories

| CWE ID  | Title                             |
| ------- | --------------------------------- |
| CWE-400 | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption |

## References

- [Enterprise ATT&CK](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1489/)
- [MITRE ATT&CK ICS - T0881](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T0881)

Trust audit

CAUTIONgrade B · trust 89/100 Install with care. The audit found things worth knowing before you trust its output.

Layer	What it checks	Result
L0	Provenance & inventory	WARN
L1	Static analysis of the code	NA
L2	Instruction surface (what it tells the agent)	PASS
L3	Class-specific surface	PASS
L4	Behavioural (sandbox)	SKIPPED

What the source does

Filesystem: none-observed
Network: none-observed
Shell: none-observed
Dependencies: pinned
Secrets in source: none-found