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MITRE ATT&CK® Malware

S0165: OSInfo

OSInfo is a custom tool used by APT3 to do internal discovery on a victim's computer and network. [1]

EnterpriseS0165MalwareObject v1.1Modified
Glexia's Take · Automated analysis

Security context for executives and security teams

Automation confidenceMedium

S0165: OSInfo describes [OSInfo](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0165) is a custom tool used by [APT3](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0022) to do internal discovery on a victim's computer and network. (Citation: Symantec Buckeye)

Executive priority

S0165: OSInfo is an official MITRE ATT&CK software. Glexia treats it as defensive behavior context for prioritizing monitoring, control validation, and response planning without using the object by itself as an attribution claim.

Technical view

Security teams should validate S0165: OSInfo by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (Windows), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.

Likely telemetry

  • Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata
  • Network, endpoint, and security-tool telemetry

Detection direction

  • Validate whether S0165: OSInfo appears in your detection coverage and tabletop scenarios.
  • Use the object to align executive risk language with SOC, incident response, and detection engineering work.
  • Do not treat ATT&CK relationship context as attribution without corroborating evidence.

Mitigation priorities

  • Map the object to existing controls and identify missing telemetry or response ownership.
  • Prioritize mitigations that reduce exposure on the listed platforms and tactics.
  • Review adjacent ATT&CK relationships before changing policy, detections, or reporting language.
Additional notes and limits

Baseline Glexia take generated from the official MITRE ATT&CK STIX object, source hash, tactics, platforms, and detection fields. It is safe to replace with a richer model-generated take for the same source hash later.

This baseline take is source-grounded and schema-validated, but it does not include environment-specific telemetry, incident evidence, or threat-intelligence corroboration.

Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

OSInfo

OSInfo is a custom tool used by APT3 to do internal discovery on a victim's computer and network. [1]

View the same entry on attack.mitre.org (MITRE-hosted reference; in-page links above use the Glexia ATT&CK library.)

Glexia analysis

How security teams should use this page

Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.

ATT&CK relationship table

Techniques used

This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.

10 rows
DomainIDNameRelationship / procedure
EnterpriseT1087.001Local AccountSub-technique

OSInfo enumerates local and domain users[1]

EnterpriseT1012Query Registry

OSInfo queries the registry to look for information about Terminal Services.[1]

EnterpriseT1082System Information Discovery

OSInfo discovers information about the infected machine.[1]

EnterpriseT1049System Network Connections Discovery

OSInfo enumerates the current network connections similar to net use .[1]

EnterpriseT1018Remote System Discovery

OSInfo performs a connection test to discover remote systems in the network[1]

EnterpriseT1069.002Domain GroupsSub-technique

OSInfo specifically looks for Domain Admins and power users within the domain.[1]

EnterpriseT1087.002Domain AccountSub-technique

OSInfo enumerates local and domain users[1]

EnterpriseT1069.001Local GroupsSub-technique

OSInfo has enumerated the local administrators group.[1]

EnterpriseT1135Network Share Discovery

OSInfo discovers shares on the network[1]

EnterpriseT1016System Network Configuration Discovery

OSInfo discovers the current domain information.[1]

Associated objects

Groups, software, and campaigns

GroupEnterprise

G0022: APT3

APT3 is a China-based threat group that researchers have attributed to China's Ministry of State Security.[1][2] This group is responsible for the campaigns known as Operation Clandestine Fox, Operation Clandestine Wolf, and Operation Double Tap.[1][3] As of June 2015, the group appears to have shifted from targeting primarily US victims to primarily political organizations in Hong Kong.[4]

Relationship explorer

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Change history

Object version and sync metadata

The fields below describe the current mirrored snapshot. When Glexia retains multiple ATT&CK source imports, you can open the table to compare the same object across releases (hashes and MITRE timestamps). For MITRE’s own release notes and roadmap, see ATT&CK resources — Updates.

ATT&CK release
19.2
Object version
1.1
Created
Modified
Raw hash
9716c073ee5566af...
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
ReleaseBundle importedObject versionModifiedStatusRaw hash
19.21.1Current bundle9716c073ee55…
19.11.1Older bundle9716c073ee55…
Raw source

Mirrored ATT&CK source object

The raw object is retained through the mirrored ATT&CK source bundle and object hash. The raw endpoint returns the exact object from the mirrored bundle when available.

Source references

External references and citations

MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.

  1. [1]
    Symantec Buckeye

    Symantec Security Response. (2016, September 6). Buckeye cyberespionage group shifts gaze from US to Hong Kong. Retrieved September 26, 2016.

    Open source URL
  2. [2]
    mitre-attackS0165
    Open source URL
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