FORENSIA

ATT&CK · T1561

Disk Wipe

Tactics: impact

About

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`.

Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows, Network DevicesMITRE ATT&CK ↗

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Software

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