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
tool
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]
14
Techniques61st pct
6
Tactics53rd pct
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 S0365
Olympic Destroyer uses API calls to enumerate the infected system's ARP table.4
Olympic Destroyer uses Windows Management Instrumentation to enumerate all systems in the network.5
Olympic Destroyer uses PsExec to interact with the ADMIN$ network share to execute commands on remote systems.67
Olympic Destroyer uses WMI to help propagate itself across a network.8
Olympic Destroyer will attempt to enumerate mapped network shares to later attempt to wipe all files on those shares.9
Standing S0365
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
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 / technique38medTop 15%
85th percentile · 85% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique9.5med
Detection coverage S0365
499 distinct rules cover the 14 techniques recorded for this tool. The 540 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 499 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 320 Sigma · 179 Splunk.
14 covered by at least one rule499 distinct rules in total
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