Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Technique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1052
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1052",
"title": "Exfiltration Over Physical Medium",
"type": "Technique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1052",
"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": "attack-pattern--e6415f09-df0e-48de-9aba-928c902b7549",
"external_id": "T1052",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2017-05-31T21:30:46.461Z",
"modified": "2026-09-03T19:19:40.603Z",
"version": "1.4",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"exfiltration"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "USB Drives Threaten Enterprise Security",
"url": "https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/usb-drives-threaten-enterprise-security/"
},
{
"source_name": "Tropic Trooper’s USBferry",
"url": "https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/20/e/tropic-troopers-back-usbferry-attack-targets-air-gapped-environments.html"
},
{
"source_name": "APT37 Adds New Capabilities for Air-Gapped Networks",
"url": "https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/apt37-adds-new-capabilities-air-gapped-networks"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (4)
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ATTACK:enterprise:M1057 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1052
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--17e06f95-da1f-4481-a586-9dfee23a26ed
ATTACK:enterprise:T1052.001 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1052
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--9d7be380-2dee-4f74-9464-1dea3c8ca6f4
ATTACK:enterprise:M1034 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1052
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--b957c285-b036-455d-a14f-8705838fd874
ATTACK:enterprise:M1042 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1052
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--c8ff6191-a8ac-4f12-b336-a2e0c7644082
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