Exfiltration Over Physical Medium - T1052

(ATT&CK® Technique)

Subtechniques

Definition

Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data via a physical medium, such as a removable drive. In certain circumstances, such as an air-gapped network compromise, exfiltration could occur via a physical medium or device introduced by a user. Such media could be an external hard drive, USB drive, cellular phone, MP3 player, or other removable storage and processing device. The physical medium or device could be used as the final exfiltration point or to hop between otherwise disconnected systems.

D3FEND Inferred Relationships

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        graph LR;

     T1052["Exfiltration Over Physical Medium"] --> |modifies| RemovableMediaDevice["Removable Media Device"]; class T1052 OffensiveTechniqueNode;
        class RemovableMediaDevice ArtifactNode; click RemovableMediaDevice href "/dao/artifact/d3f:RemovableMediaDevice";
        click T1052 href "/offensive-technique/attack/T1052/"; click RemovableMediaDevice href "/dao/artifact/d3f:RemovableMediaDevice";             IOPortRestriction["IO Port Restriction"] -->
          | filters | RemovableMediaDevice["Removable Media Device"];

          IOPortRestriction["IO Port Restriction"] -.->
            | may-isolate | T1052["Exfiltration Over Physical Medium"] ;
          class IOPortRestriction DefensiveTechniqueNode;
          class RemovableMediaDevice ArtifactNode;
          click IOPortRestriction href "/technique/d3f:IOPortRestriction";

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