When it first starts, BADNEWS crawls the victim's local drives and collects documents with the following extensions: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, and .txt.34
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BADNEWS S0128
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 31 May 2017
- Last modified
- 25 April 2025
BADNEWS is malware that has been used by the actors responsible for the Patchwork campaign. Its name was given due to its use of RSS feeds, forums, and blogs for command and control. [1] [2]
24
TechniquesTop 13%
8
TacticsTop 20%
1
Threat groupunranked
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0128
BADNEWS copies files with certain extensions from USB devices to a predefined directory.5
BADNEWS is sometimes signed with an invalid Authenticode certificate in an apparent effort to make it look more legitimate.6
BADNEWS attempts to hide its payloads using legitimate filenames.7
When it first starts, BADNEWS crawls the victim's mapped drives and collects documents with the following extensions: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, and .txt.8
BADNEWS creates a scheduled task to establish by executing a malicious payload every subsequent minute.9
Standing S0128
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this tool 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 825 ATT&CK software entries 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
Techniques24Top 13%
87th percentile · 87% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics8Top 20%
80th percentile · 80% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Threat group161% tie · 22 values
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Campaigns085% tie · 8 values
85% of the population shares a single value across only 8 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique8.5medBottom 12%
12th percentile · 88% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique3.5med
Detection coverage S0128
620 distinct rules cover the 24 techniques recorded for this tool. The 636 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 620 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 467 Sigma · 153 Splunk.
21 covered by at least one rule3 with no coverage620 distinct rules in total
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