1200KM / simulation
T1485 Data Destruction — Attack Simulation
Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources. Data destruction is likely to render stored data irrecoverable by forensic techniques through overwriting files or data on local and remote drives. Common operating system file deletion commands such as del and rm often only remove pointers to files without wiping the contents of the…
Technique description
Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources. Data destruction is likely to render stored data irrecoverable by forensic techniques through overwriting files or data on local and remote drives. Common operating system file deletion commands such as del and rm often only remove pointers to files without wiping the contents of the…
At least one platform-compatible Atomic procedure is documented. Individual review, lab prerequisites, and validation remain required.
Official ATT&CK definition · Detection rules and anomaly models
Documented simulation candidates
- ESXi - Delete VM Snapshots
Procedure 1207ddff-f25b-41b3-aa0e-7c26d2b546d1; elevation not declared required; cleanup not declared. Not executed or individually validated.
- Overwrite deleted data on C drive
Procedure 321fd25e-0007-417f-adec-33232252be19; elevation not declared required; cleanup not declared. Not executed or individually validated.
- FreeBSD/macOS/Linux - Overwrite file with DD
Procedure 38deee99-fd65-4031-bec8-bfa4f9f26146; elevation not declared required; cleanup not declared. Not executed or individually validated.
- Windows - Overwrite file with SysInternals SDelete
Procedure 476419b5-aebf-4366-a131-ae3e8dae5fc2; elevation not declared required; cleanup not declared. Not executed or individually validated.
- GCP - Delete Bucket
Procedure 4ac71389-40f4-448a-b73f-754346b3f928; elevation not declared required; cleanup present, not reviewed. Not executed or individually validated.
Connected ecosystem references
Linked tags
Detection and collection
Attack tools
Threat actor context
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Existing research
Connected anomaly research
Curated research views reached through an exact source technique, a catalog model, or a reviewed collection reference. These are navigation associations, not claims of detector effectiveness or sensor equivalence.
Telemetry contracts · Maintained query examples · Validation and blind spots
Pinned research references. No browser attack runner, live simulation result or validated detector is asserted. Source mappings and validation limits are preserved. ATT&CK / Atomic provenance · Detection provenance.