USBStealer
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Is family
- Yes
- Published
- 31/05/2017 23:33
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:06
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Related entities
- 14 attack patterns (mitre), 1 intrusion sets (apt)
Aliases
USB Stealer Win32/USBStealer
Description
[USBStealer](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0136) is malware that has been used by [APT28](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0007) since at least 2005 to extract information from air-gapped networks. It does not have the capability to communicate over the Internet and has been used in conjunction with [ADVSTORESHELL](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0045). (Citation: ESET Sednit USBStealer 2014) (Citation: Kaspersky Sofacy)
Marking (TLP)
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