Shamoon — Malware Profile
Shamoon is wiper malware that was first used by an Iranian group known as the "Cutting Sword of Justice" in 2012. Other versions known as Shamoon 2 and Shamoon 3 were observed in 2016 and 2018. Shamoon has also been seen leveraging RawDisk and Filerase to carry out data wiping tasks. Analysis has linked Shamoon with Kwampirs based on multiple shared artifacts and coding patterns. The term Shamoon is sometimes used to refer to the group using the malware as well as the malware itself.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (24)
- T1012 Query Registry
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1018 Remote System Discovery
- T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares
- T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information
- T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1070.006 Timestomp
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1078.002 Domain Accounts
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1112 Modify Registry
- T1124 System Time Discovery
- T1134.001 Token Impersonation/Theft
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1485 Data Destruction
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- T1529 System Shutdown/Reboot
- T1543.003 Windows Service
- T1548.002 Bypass User Account Control
- T1561.002 Disk Structure Wipe
- T1569.002 Service Execution
- T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer