TTPwire Vol. 1 · MITRE ATT&CK·Tagged

← All stories

Huntress

Creating macOS Ransomware | Huntress

2022-11-08 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

7 predictions
T1486Data Encrypted for Impact
98%
“be recovered via memory dump, and to further frustrate dfir efforts, we modified the script to store a new random password in ` p `. breaking down the final script let ' s walk through the script : - first, we conjure a random 64 - character password as the variable ` p `, using …”
T1486Data Encrypted for Impact
97%
“the blue team to improve our own tradecraft and, in turn, get better at evicting threat actors who try to deploy ransomware for malicious purposes. if you want to test this macos ransomware discussed in this article, you can find it here along with other bits and pieces we gather…”
T1486Data Encrypted for Impact
97%
“failure. - diskx : an assumption was made in the script about the disk name / number for the ransomware to target. this was largely correct in its default on the template. - ~ / exfil / * : this is a hard - coded directory that would likely not exist on a machine — until it is cr…”
T1486Data Encrypted for Impact
96%
“creating macos ransomware | huntress with the general availability release of the huntress macos agent, we wanted to share some of the apple - y stuff we ’ ve been up to behind the scenes. in this article, we ’ ll put our red team hats on, take a look at a macos ransomware script…”
T1486Data Encrypted for Impact
96%
“the os market has started to become more multipolar, it has increasingly become more advantageous for adversaries to focus on apple products. in 2022, a reality we must come to terms with is that macs can be hacked, ransomed and indeed get malware. finding macos ransomware we ’ r…”
T1679Selective Exclusion
33%
“failure. - diskx : an assumption was made in the script about the disk name / number for the ransomware to target. this was largely correct in its default on the template. - ~ / exfil / * : this is a hard - coded directory that would likely not exist on a machine — until it is cr…”
T1564.006Run Virtual Instance
33%
“failure. - diskx : an assumption was made in the script about the disk name / number for the ransomware to target. this was largely correct in its default on the template. - ~ / exfil / * : this is a hard - coded directory that would likely not exist on a machine — until it is cr…”

Summary

With the beta release of the Huntress macOS agent, we wanted to share some of the Apple-y stuff we’ve been up to behind the scenes.