Octopus
- ID
- S0340
- Type
- Malware
- Platforms
- Windows
- Source
- attack.mitre.org
- MITRE last modified
- 22 Oct 2025
Octopus is a Windows Trojan written in the Delphi programming language that has been used by Nomadic Octopus to target government organizations in Central Asia since at least 2014.[1][2][3]
Techniques used (19)
- T1005 Data from Local System
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1036.005 Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1074.001 Local Data Staging
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1113 Screen Capture
- T1132.001 Standard Encoding
- T1204.002 Malicious File
- T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
- T1560.001 Archive via Utility
- T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
- T1567.002 Exfiltration to Cloud Storage
- T1680 Local Storage Discovery