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
- 9c54d3b2a64d92bca577a12b70d8d29a
SHA-256
- 38834b796ed025563774167716a477e9217d45e47def20facb027325f2a790d1
SHA-1
- da1e4a09a59565c5d62887e0e9a9f6f04a18b5f4
Remediation
- Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for IOCs in your environment.