T1092 Communication Through Removable Media

Communication Through Removable Media

Adversaries can perform command and control between compromised hosts on potentially disconnected networks using removable media to transfer commands from system to system. Both systems would need to be compromised, with the likelihood that an Internet-connected system was compromised first and the second through lateral movement by Replication Through Removable Media. Commands and files would be relayed from the disconnected system to the Internet-connected system to which the adversary has direct access.

ATT&CK T1092 platforms — Status Active Version 20.1

Adversaries can perform command and control between compromised hosts on potentially disconnected networks using removable media to transfer commands from system to system.¹ Both systems would need to be compromised, with the likelihood that an Internet-connected system was compromised first and the second through lateral movement by Replication Through Removable Media. Commands and files would be relayed from the disconnected system to the Internet-connected system to which the adversary has direct access.

ESET Sednit USBStealer 2014

Groups using this technique

Group	Name	Country
grp_g0007	APT28	Russia

Claims

No public claim points at this technique yet.

Auto-ingested and not human-reviewed; confidence and validity read by citation.