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Olympic Destroyer S0365

Type: malware
Platform: Windows
Created: 25 March 2019
Last modified: 25 April 2025

Olympic Destroyer is malware that was used by Sandworm Team against the 2018 Winter Olympics, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The main purpose of the malware was to render infected computer systems inoperable. The malware leverages various native Windows utilities and API calls to carry out its destructive tasks. Olympic Destroyer has worm-like features to spread itself across a computer network in order to maximize its destructive impact.[1][2]

Techniques61st pct

Tactics53rd pct

Threat groupunranked

CampaignsNone recorded

Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.

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Olympic Destroyer S0365

Type: malware
Platform: Windows
Created: 25 March 2019
Last modified: 25 April 2025

Techniques61st pct

Tactics53rd pct

Threat groupunranked

CampaignsNone recorded

Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.

Olympic Destroyer MITRE reference S0365

LSASS Memory T1003.001 ↗

Olympic Destroyer contains a module that tries to obtain credentials from LSASS, similar to Mimikatz. These credentials are used with PsExec and Windows Management Instrumentation to help the malware propagate itself across a network.3

Credential Access90 detection rules

System Network Configuration Discovery T1016 ↗

Olympic Destroyer uses API calls to enumerate the infected system's ARP table.4

Discovery25 detection rules

Remote System Discovery T1018 ↗

Olympic Destroyer uses Windows Management Instrumentation to enumerate all systems in the network.5

Discovery39 detection rules

SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1021.002 ↗

Olympic Destroyer uses PsExec to interact with the ADMIN$ network share to execute commands on remote systems.6 7

Lateral Movement54 detection rules

Windows Management Instrumentation T1047 ↗

Olympic Destroyer uses WMI to help propagate itself across a network.8

Execution71 detection rules

Network Share Discovery T1135 ↗

Olympic Destroyer will attempt to enumerate mapped network shares to later attempt to wipe all files on those shares.9

Discovery16 detection rules

Standing S0365

Reach is how much of ATT&CK this malware 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

Techniques1461st pct

61st percentile · 61% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.

Tactics653rd pct

53rd percentile · 53% 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 / technique37.5medTop 16%

84th percentile · 84% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.

Tests / technique11medTop 5%

95th percentile · 95% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many atomic tests per technique or fewer.

Data comps / technique4med54% tie · 11 values

54% of the population shares a single value across only 11 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.

Mitigations / technique3medTop 3%

97th percentile · 97% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many mitigations per technique or fewer.

5 of 8 axes carry an honest rank on this page. Coverage medians are taken across this malware’s 14 Enterprise techniques.

Range

Technique Campaign use over its cumulative rule count.

Campaigns · 0Sigma rules (cumulative) · 320Splunk ESCU (cumulative) · 174