Procedure examples

AcidRain iterates over device file identifiers on the target, opens the device file, and either overwrites the file or calls various IOCTLS commands to erase it.

Apostle searches for files on available drives based on a list of extensions hard-coded into the sample for follow-on wipe activity.

WhisperGate can overwrite sectors of a victim host's hard drive at periodic offsets.

AcidPour includes functionality to overwrite victim devices with the content of a buffer to wipe disk content.

BlackCat has the ability to wipe VM snapshots on compromised networks.

VPNFilter has the capability to wipe a portion of an infected device's firmware.

DarkGate has deleted all files in the Mozilla directory using the following command: `/c del /q /f /s C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\firefox*`.

StoneDrill can wipe the accessible physical or logical drives of the infected machine.

MegaCortex can wipe deleted data from all drives using cipher.exe.

HermeticWiper has the ability to corrupt disk partitions and obtain raw disk access to destroy data.

DEADWOOD deletes files following overwriting them with random data.

RawDisk has been used to directly access the hard disk to help overwrite arbitrarily sized portions of disk content.

cipher.exe can be used to overwrite deleted data in specified folders.