OceanSalt
MITRE ATT&CK: S0346 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: OceanSalt
- Malware type
- trojan
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:35:07
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector
Targeted regions: country_code:kr country_code:us country_code:ca
Context
OceanSalt is a Trojan that was used in a campaign targeting victims in South Korea, United States, and Canada. OceanSalt shares code similarity with SpyNote RAT, which has been linked to APT1.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 127 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
- Non-Standard Encoding (attack-pattern)
- System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
- File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Spearphishing Attachment (attack-pattern)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Oceansalt_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- McAfee — Rp Operation Oceansalt (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Oceansalt (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0346 (report)