title: Overwrite Deleted Data with Cipher
id: 4b046706-5789-4673-b111-66f25fe99534
status: experimental
description: |
    Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.
    Data destruction is likely to render stored data irrecoverable by forensic techniques through overwriting files or data on local and remote drives
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1485/T1485.md#atomic-test-3---overwrite-deleted-data-on-c-drive
author: frack113
date: 2021/12/26
tags:
    - attack.impact
    - attack.t1485
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith: '\cipher.exe'
        CommandLine|contains: ' /w:'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium