group
Sowbug G0054
- Created
- 16 January 2018
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Alias
- Sowbug
Sowbug is a threat group that has conducted targeted attacks against organizations in South America and Southeast Asia, particularly government entities, since at least 2015. [1]
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0054
Sowbug named its tools to masquerade as Windows or Adobe Reader software, such as by using the file name adobecms.exe and the directory CSIDL_APPDATA\microsoft\security.3
Sowbug extracted Word documents from a file server on a victim network.4
Sowbug obtained OS version and hardware configuration from a victim.7
Standing G0054
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this group touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 176 ATT&CK groups only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
30th percentile · 70% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
26th percentile · 74% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tactics spanned.
39th percentile · 61% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tools and malware.
89% of the population shares a single value across only 4 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
73rd percentile · 73% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Detection coverage G0054
259 distinct rules cover the 9 techniques recorded for this group. The 267 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 259 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 195 Sigma · 64 Splunk.
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