NDiskMonitor

MITRE ATT&CK: S0272 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: NDiskMonitor

First seen
2018-05-01 00:00:00
Malware type
backdoor
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 12:48:06

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector education-and-nonprofits

Targeted regions: country_code:in

Context

NDiskMonitor is a custom backdoor written in .NET that appears to be unique to Patchwork.

Detection coverage

  • 152 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Symmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • Trend Micro — Tech Brief Untangling The Patchwork Cyberespionage Group (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0272 (report)

External references