Severity
High
Analysis Summary
BlackCat – aka AlphaVM & AlphaV – is a Ransomware family that is deployed as a part of a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS). It is written in the Rust programming language and can run on Windows, Linux-based operating systems (Debian, Ubuntu, ReadyNAS, Synology), and VMWare ESXi.
This ransomware first appeared in November 2021. The majority of the group’s victims have been in the United States, although BlackCat and its associates have also targeted organizations in Europe, the Philippines, and other regions. Construction and engineering, retail, transportation, commercial services, insurance, machinery, professional services, telecommunication, auto components, and medicines are among the targeted sectors of BlackCat ransomware.
This ransomware can be set to encrypt files using either the AES or ChaCha20 algorithms. It can destroy volume shadow copies, terminate programs and services, and stop virtual machines on ESXi servers to maximize the quantity of ransomed data.
Indicators Of Compromise
MD5
- 0646491738c76fd6a9eefaed43eabf43
SHA-256
- f2b3f1ed693021b20f456a058b86b08abfc4876c7a3ae18aea6e95567fd55b2e
SHA-1
- 026720fca026d971b16d1990146ef6462e8c1664
Remediation
- Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for IOCs in your environment.