MITRE ATT&CKtechnique
T1561 Disk Wipe
- Domain
- enterprise
- Tactics
- Impact
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows, Network Devices
- Version
- 1.2
- Created
- 2020-02-20
Description
Adversaries may wipe or corrupt raw disk data on specific systems or in large numbers in a network to interrupt availability to system and network resources. With direct write access to a disk, adversaries may attempt to overwrite portions of disk data. Adversaries may opt to wipe arbitrary portions of disk data and/or wipe disk structures like the master boot record (MBR). A complete wipe of all disk sectors may be attempted.
To maximize impact on the target organization in operations where network-wide availability interruption is the goal, malware used for wiping disks may have worm-like features to propagate across a network by leveraging additional techniques like Valid Accounts, OS Credential Dumping, and SMB/Windows Admin Shares.
On network devices, adversaries may wipe configuration files and other data from the device using Network Device CLI commands such as `erase`.
Related
Tactic · MITRE ATT&CK (1)
- TA0040 Impact tactic
Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · mitigates (1)
- M1053 Data Backup mitigation
Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · subtechnique of (2)
Referenced by Compliance · mitigates (14)
- CIS-11.2 Perform Automated Backups CIS Safeguard v8.1
- CIS-11.3 Protect Recovery Data CIS Safeguard v8.1
- CIS-11.4 Establish and Maintain an Isolated Instance of Recovery Data CIS Safeguard v8.1
- CIS-3.5 Securely Dispose of Data CIS Safeguard v8.1
- NIST-AC-3 Access Enforcement NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-AC-6 Least Privilege NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-CM-2 Baseline Configuration NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-CP-10 System Recovery and Reconstitution NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-CP-2 Contingency Plan NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-CP-7 Alternate Processing Site NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-CP-9 System Backup NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-SI-3 Malicious Code Protection NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-SI-4 System Monitoring NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-SI-7 Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity NIST 800-53 control
References
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/fundamentals/command/cf_command_ref/D_through_E.html#wp3557227463 erase_cmd_cisco
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200515/https:/operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Operation-Blockbuster-Destructive-Malware-Report.pdf Novetta Blockbuster Destructive Malware
- https://docs.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon Microsoft Sysmon v6 May 2017