# MITRE ATT&CK Technique Lookup (2s.io)

> MITRE ATT&CK Technique Lookup (2s.io) is a paid API for AI agents from 2s.io, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Look up MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise techniques by ID or keyword, returning tactic classifications and affected platforms

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://2s.io/api/security/attack
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mitre-att-ck-technique-lookup-2s-io-bebc96d1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MS5qS2PSh0pvzjSFpidLQ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability mitre-att-ck-technique-lookup-2s-io-bebc96d1
```

Example prompt: What does MITRE ATT&CK say about T1059.001 — what tactic category does it fall under and which platforms does it affect?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, ground-truth MITRE ATT&CK technique data without setting up an API key or account — ideal for AI agents doing threat analysis, red team planning, or security enrichment that need to map observed behaviors to ATT&CK IDs. Prefer this over scraping attack.mitre.org directly, or over CVE-focused endpoints that don't return tactic/platform classifications.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent technique ID returns empty items array with total 0
- Overly broad keyword query returns large result sets that may require pagination via limit
- Payment not processed results in HTTP 402 response before any data is returned
- Malformed queryParams (wrong type for limit) may cause a 400 error

## How this service works

Authoritative MITRE ATT&CK (Enterprise) technique lookup. Pass id (e.g. T1059 or sub-technique T1059.001) for the canonical technique — name, tactics (kill-chain phases), description, platforms, sub-technique flag + parent, mitigations, and detection guidance — or query for a keyword search returning ranked techniques. Bundled current ATT&CK matrix (~700 techniques), zero external calls. Agents cite T-numbers and tactic names that must be exact; this returns version-pinned, citeable data instead of hallucinated IDs. For threat modeling, detection engineering, and report enrichment.

## Output

A JSON array of ATT&CK technique objects each containing a technique ID, human-readable name, list of tactic categories (e.g. execution, persistence), and list of affected platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux). Also includes the total count of results and source attribution to MITRE ATT&CK with its Apache-2.0 license.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
   "id": "T1059.001"
  }
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ATT&CK technique id (T1059 / T1059.001)."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Keyword search."
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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