Deleted Data Overwritten Via Cipher.EXE

Detects usage of the "cipher" built-in utility in order to overwrite deleted data from disk. Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources. Data destruction is likely to render stored data irrecoverable by forensic techniques through overwriting files or data on local and remote drives

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 1title: Deleted Data Overwritten Via Cipher.EXE
 2id: 4b046706-5789-4673-b111-66f25fe99534
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Detects usage of the "cipher" built-in utility in order to overwrite deleted data from disk.
 6    Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.
 7    Data destruction is likely to render stored data irrecoverable by forensic techniques through overwriting files or data on local and remote drives    
 8references:
 9    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1485/T1485.md#atomic-test-3---overwrite-deleted-data-on-c-drive
10author: frack113
11date: 2021/12/26
12modified: 2023/02/21
13tags:
14    - attack.impact
15    - attack.t1485
16logsource:
17    category: process_creation
18    product: windows
19detection:
20    selection_img:
21        - OriginalFileName: 'CIPHER.EXE'
22        - Image|endswith: '\cipher.exe'
23    selection_cli:
24        CommandLine|contains: ' /w:'
25    condition: all of selection_*
26falsepositives:
27    - Unknown
28level: medium

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