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October 7, 2022Severity
High
Analysis Summary
Chaos is a customizable ransomware builder that emerged on June 9 2021 (in underground forums) by falsely marketing itself as the .NET version of Ryuk despite sharing no such overlaps with the notorious counterpart. Since then, it has undergone active development and quick advancements, which have persuaded several attacker groups to adopt it. The most recent version, known as Yashma, was observed in the wild in May 2022. Yashma allows attackers to configure the ransomware so that it does not execute dependent on the language chosen on the victim’s device. It can also disable antivirus software, backup services, storage services, remote desktop services, and credential vault services on victims’ machines. Malware developers frequently employ this strategy to avoid infecting computers in their own region, which would draw the attention of local law authorities. The Chaos ransomware generator is said to still lack some of the capabilities that are seen in many existing ransomware families.
Impact
- File Encryption
Indicators of Compromise
MD5
- fbd7e50091e64349827d1a62947ce042
- 36c28b15c4f2303c023f3a692f232de9
SHA-256
- 7c36e28ff8f382596406ee5aa1fe401d7da247d6ded182d2faa945da4680c6dc
- c3fc3a347f4b029db30d880bcb2c17aac60681419b21e6ecc8146ec023086b07
SHA-1
- 22db7cddf60c5eadeedafc4ce7f27530a06899f4
- 6bba01235d9ef994b2fa7b00f93c480889b922ae
Remediation
- Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for Indicator of compromise (IOCs) in your environment utilizing your respective security controls
- Maintain cyber hygiene by updating your anti-virus software and implementing a patch management lifecycle.
- Maintain Offline Backups – In a ransomware attack, the adversary will often delete or encrypt backups if they have
- access to them. That’s why it’s important to keep offline (preferably off-site), encrypted backups of data and test them
- regularly.
- Emails from unknown senders should always be treated with caution.
- Never trust or open ” links and attachments received from unknown sources/senders.