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.(Citation: Novetta Blockbuster Destructive Malware)
On network devices, adversaries may wipe configuration files and other data from the device using Network Device CLI commands such as erase.(Citation: erase_cmd_cisco)
| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| CIS-11.4 | Establish and Maintain an Isolated Instance of Recovery Data | mitigates | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
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Adversaries erase disk data or structures to make systems unusable. Offline, cloud-separated, or off-site recovery copies remain outside the disk-wipe operation, directly preserving data required for restoration.
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| CIS-11.3 | Protect Recovery Data | mitigates | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
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Adversaries wipe disks to destroy data or render systems unusable. Recovery data protected on separate storage remains outside the affected disk's destructive operation, directly preserving the data required to rebuild the system.
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| CIS-11.2 | Perform Automated Backups | mitigates | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
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Adversaries erase disk data or structures to render systems unusable. Automated backups preserve data outside the destroyed disk state, directly enabling restoration after the wipe.
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| CIS-3.5 | Securely Dispose of Data | mitigates | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
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This control protects against attacker behaviors that destroy or overwrite data and storage media.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| action.malware.variety.C2 | Malware creates Command and Control capability for malware. Child of 'Backdoor or C2'. | related-to | T1561 | Disk Wipe | |
| action.malware.variety.Destroy data | Destroy or corrupt stored data | related-to | T1561 | Disk Wipe | |
| attribute.availability.variety.Destruction | Destruction | related-to | T1561 | Disk Wipe | |
| attribute.availability.variety.Interruption | Interruption | related-to | T1561 | Disk Wipe | |
| attribute.availability.variety.Loss | Loss | related-to | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| backup_and_dr_actifiogo | Backup and DR-Actifio GO | technique_scores | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
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Backup and DR-Actifio GO is a copy data management plaform that virtualizes application data to improve an organizations resiliency and cloud mobility. This capability allows an organization to take regular backups and provides several methods of restoring applications and/or VM data to a previous state. This provides significant ability to respond to a Disk Wipe since an organization could restore wiped data back to the latest backup.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| aws_cloudendure_disaster_recovery | AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery | technique_scores | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
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AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery enables the replication and recovery of servers into AWS Cloud. In the event that server disks are wiped, AWS CloudEndure can be used to provision an instance of the server from a previous point in time within minutes. This mapping is given a score of Significant because it supports all of the sub-techniques (2 of 2).
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| aws_rds | AWS RDS | technique_scores | T1561 | Disk Wipe |
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AWS RDS supports the replication and recovery of database instances. In the event that a database instance is deleted during a disk wipe, AWS RDS can be used to restore the database instance to a previous point in time. However, this mapping is only given a score of Minimal because AWS RDS only provides a backup of the database instance and not the underlying system that it is hosted on.
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| Technique ID | Technique Name | Number of Mappings |
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| T1561.002 | Disk Structure Wipe | 9 |
| T1561.001 | Disk Content Wipe | 8 |