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{
  "id": "ATTACK:enterprise:S0576",
  "title": "MegaCortex",
  "type": "Software",
  "source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0576",
  "snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
  "status": "active",
  "rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
  "review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
  "stix_id": "malware--909617c3-6d87-4330-8f32-bd3af38c3b92",
  "external_id": "S0576",
  "domain": "enterprise",
  "created": "2021-02-17T20:27:27.222Z",
  "modified": "2025-03-10T19:49:50.935Z",
  "version": "1.1",
  "aliases": [

  ],
  "tactics": [

  ],
  "source_references": [
    {
      "source_name": "FireEye Financial Actors Moving into OT",
      "url": "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/07/financially-motivated-actors-are-expanding-access-into-ot.html"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "IBM MegaCortex",
      "url": "https://securityintelligence.com/posts/from-mega-to-giga-cross-version-comparison-of-top-megacortex-modifications/"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "FireEye Ransomware Disrupt Industrial Production",
      "url": "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/02/ransomware-against-machine-learning-to-disrupt-industrial-production.html"
    }
  ]
}

Explicit source assertions (16)

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ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1685

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--064b2c99-1f7c-43d5-ab3e-892e598e2cac

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1218.011

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--190c819e-d4c9-4fa6-b809-9c7d76c0810a

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1497.001

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--3cf330d6-3a3c-437f-922b-c1bdce852b71

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1588.003

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--443ee76b-8fd4-4485-bdbb-4a562f348be0

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1531

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--46250897-5a79-4401-b965-da8115a60d7f

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1490

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--48c9c2f3-9358-4342-88b7-57c8e5df893b

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1083

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--5cc7ade7-2e21-41a3-8535-4274c138dcc4

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1055.001

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--71c146b5-9afa-41fa-9339-2a6287e7d309

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1489

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--7f58088d-9b5d-46ba-b9e4-fc937ffae294

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1112

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--83d63b2b-f287-4047-bbe4-82c8b100222a

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1561.001

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--8550e43c-ca91-416e-a75a-b6f5f979d457

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1486

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--8b245546-d5ed-4ff8-b5a6-7c97250ce026

IBM MegaCortex · mbed-crypto

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.003

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--99522819-c6ee-44c1-ac42-5984ae439991

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1140

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--9a36085f-d0a9-41f2-a9cf-97e81c286ef2

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1106

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--bf6a8896-2e07-4ed8-9f51-3847c3b0745f

ATTACK:enterprise:S0576 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1134

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--fcfb5392-d5d3-451d-be1f-3cdb5ee264d8

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