Our current theme is ransomware, focusing on scenarios where threats use live off the land (LotL) binaries and custom payloads to accomplish their objectives. The ransomware theme will contain the following kill-chains:
We were originally shooting to release a Windows variant of S(C)wipe but ran into compiling restraints right up to the release of this chain, so we opted to compile for Linux. We’ll release a Windows variant of this chain later on.
This week’s kill chain focuses on a different approach to ransomware for Linux machines. Instead of relying on a typical “discover and encrypt” attack path, our custom chain, written in C, delivers a (safe) attack that:
We have designed this chain with two paths, one safe* and one *destructive*. The safe path (the default) will copy each file before wiping and apply the wipe to the copy only. Removing the *safe* flag will allow this attack to run in the wild, and will be *destructive.
Watch a demonstration: Linux Custom Ransomware
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