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S1157: Fuxnet

Fuxnet is malware designed to impact the industrial network infrastructure managing control system sensors for utility operations in Moscow. Fuxnet is linked to an entity referred to as the Blackjack hacking group, which is assessed to be linked to Ukrainian intelligence services.[1]

ICSS1157MalwareObject v1.0Modified
Glexia's Take · Automated analysis

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Automation confidenceMedium

S1157: Fuxnet describes [Fuxnet](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S1157) is malware designed to impact the industrial network infrastructure managing control system sensors for utility operations in Moscow. [Fuxnet](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S1157) is linked to an entity referred to as the Blackjack hacking group, which is assessed to be linked to Ukrainian intelligence services.(Citation: Claroty Fuxnet 2024)

Executive priority

S1157: Fuxnet 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 S1157: Fuxnet by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (Input/Output Server, Control Server), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.

Likely telemetry

  • Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata

Detection direction

  • Validate whether S1157: Fuxnet 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

Fuxnet

Fuxnet is malware designed to impact the industrial network infrastructure managing control system sensors for utility operations in Moscow. Fuxnet is linked to an entity referred to as the Blackjack hacking group, which is assessed to be linked to Ukrainian intelligence services.[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.

6 rows
DomainIDNameRelationship / procedure
ICST0883Internet Accessible Device

Fuxnet execution relied upon accessing Internet-accessible devices for initial access and deployment.[1]

ICST0822External Remote Services

Fuxnet initial execution relied on accessing external remote services for victim environments.[1]

ICST0806Brute Force I/O

Fuxnet repeatedly wrote arbitrary data over the Meter-Bus channel from impacted devices to connected sensors to render sensor data acquisition useless.[1]

ICST0829Loss of View

Fuxnet impaired sensor communication to impacted devices resulting in a loss of view condition for overall system monitoring.[1]

ICST0814Denial of Service

Fuxnet shut down remote access services such as SSH, HTTP, telnet, and SNMP to a device along with deleting the routing table for routing devices to inhibit system accessibility and communication.[1]

ICST0809Data Destruction

Fuxnet physically destroyed NAND memory chips on impacted devices through repeated bit-flip operations.[1]

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
1.0
Created
Modified
Raw hash
543728d163875f58...
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
ReleaseBundle importedObject versionModifiedStatusRaw hash
19.21.0Current bundle543728d16387…
19.11.0Older bundle543728d16387…
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]
    Claroty Fuxnet 2024

    Team82. (2024, April 12). Unpacking the Blackjack Group's Fuxnet Malware. Retrieved September 11, 2024.

    Open source URL
  2. [2]
    mitre-attackS1157
    Open source URL
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