USBferry

MITRE ATT&CK: S0452 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: USBferry

Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:18:43

Targeted industries: defense-and-aerospace government-and-public-sector

Targeted regions: country_code:tw country_code:ph

Context

USBferry is an information stealing malware and has been used by Tropic Trooper in targeted attacks against Taiwanese and Philippine air-gapped military environments. USBferry shares an overlapping codebase with YAHOYAH, though it has several features which makes it a distinct piece of malware.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules
  • 141 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Local Account (attack-pattern)
  • Remote System Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Peripheral Device Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
  • Replication Through Removable Media (attack-pattern)
  • Rundll32 (attack-pattern)
  • Data from Local System (attack-pattern)
  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Connections Discovery (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Usbferry_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • Trend Micro — Tech Brief Tropic Trooper S Back Usbferry Attack Targets Air Gapped Environments (report)
  • ESET — Eset Jumping The Air Gap Wp (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Usbferry (report)
  • Trend Micro — Tropic Troopers Back Usbferry Attack Targets Air Gapped Environments (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0452 (report)

External references