Trusted Process Reporting Suppression - DE-0003.13

Adversaries may leverage process injection methods to execute malicious functionality within trusted onboard software processes in order to suppress, delay, filter, or selectively conceal telemetry and operational reporting associated with unauthorized activity. By operating inside legitimate telemetry handlers, flight software tasks, middleware, or operating system services, attackers can interfere with the generation, aggregation, or transmission of monitoring data before it is downlinked or processed by onboard monitoring systems.

Unlike direct modification of individual operational values, this technique focuses on manipulating the reporting path itself to prevent malicious activity from being observed, correlated, or reconstructed by operators or autonomy systems.

Examples may include suppressing telemetry associated with unauthorized commands, filtering fault events prior to downlink, selectively disabling event reporting during malicious operations, delaying housekeeping updates, or preventing monitoring services from publishing anomalous state information.