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)

External references