Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1485.001
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1485.001",
"title": "Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1485/001",
"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--1001e0d6-ee09-4dfc-aa90-e9320ffc8fe4",
"external_id": "T1485.001",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2024-09-25T13:16:14.166Z",
"modified": "2025-04-15T19:58:06.787Z",
"version": "1.1",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"impact"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "AWS Storage Lifecycles",
"url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html"
},
{
"source_name": "GCP Storage Lifecycles",
"url": "https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/lifecycle"
},
{
"source_name": "Halcyon AWS Ransomware 2025",
"url": "https://www.halcyon.ai/blog/abusing-aws-native-services-ransomware-encrypting-s3-buckets-with-sse-c"
},
{
"source_name": "Azure Storage Lifecycles",
"url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/lifecycle-management-policy-configure?tabs=azure-portal"
},
{
"source_name": "Palo Alto Cloud Ransomware",
"url": "https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/prisma-cloud/ransomware-data-protection-cloud/"
},
{
"source_name": "Datadog S3 Lifecycle CloudTrail Logs",
"url": "https://stratus-red-team.cloud/attack-techniques/AWS/aws.defense-evasion.cloudtrail-lifecycle-rule/"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (3)
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ATTACK:enterprise:T1485.001 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1485
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--2cf95c9b-01d0-4300-b635-be63399da755
ATTACK:enterprise:M1018 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1485.001
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--759cdb17-8d35-4372-8a9d-eae658f0bb31
ATTACK:enterprise:M1053 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1485.001
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a142c98a-6ccc-4f78-9882-e66dd4827cf6
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