Octopus can exfiltrate files from the system using a documents collector tool.4
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Octopus S0340
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 30 January 2019
- Last modified
- 22 October 2025
Octopus is a Windows Trojan written in the Delphi programming language that has been used by Nomadic Octopus to target government organizations in Central Asia since at least 2014.[1][2][3]
19
TechniquesTop 23%
9
TacticsTop 11%
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 S0340
Octopus can collect the host IP address from the victim’s machine.5
Octopus can collect the username from the victim’s machine.6
Octopus has been disguised as legitimate programs, such as Java and Telegram Messenger.78
Octopus has uploaded stolen files and data from a victim's machine over its C2 channel.9
Octopus has used wmic.exe for local discovery information.10
Standing S0340
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
Techniques19Top 23%
77th percentile · 77% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics9Top 11%
89th percentile · 89% 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 / technique27med68th pct
68th percentile · 68% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique7med
Detection coverage S0340
667 distinct rules cover the 19 techniques recorded for this tool. The 715 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 667 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 451 Sigma · 216 Splunk.
18 covered by at least one rule1 with no coverage667 distinct rules in total
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