Seasalt
MITRE ATT&CK: S0345 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Seasalt
- First seen
- 2010-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- trojan
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:35:06
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications
Targeted regions: country_code:cn country_code:us
Context
Seasalt is malware that has been linked to APT1's 2010 operations. It shares some code similarities with OceanSalt.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 239 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
- File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Masquerade Task or Service (attack-pattern)
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
- Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
- Windows Service (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- APT1 (threat-actor)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Seasalt_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- McAfee — Rp Operation Oceansalt (report)
- github.com — Appendix%20C%20(Digital)%20 %20The%20Malware%20Arsenal (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Seasalt (report)
- Mandiant — Mandiant Apt1 Report (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0345 (report)