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	"title": "The hateful eight: Kaspersky’s guide to modern ransomware groups’ TTPs",
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	"plain_text": "The hateful eight: Kaspersky’s guide to modern ransomware\r\ngroups’ TTPs\r\nBy Nikita Nazarov\r\nPublished: 2022-06-23 · Archived: 2026-04-05 14:43:47 UTC\r\nResearch\r\nResearch\r\n23 Jun 2022\r\n 2 minute read\r\nhttps://securelist.com/modern-ransomware-groups-ttps/106824/\r\nPage 1 of 6\n\nThese days ransomware analysis gets a lot of coverage in commercial and public reports, with vendors issuing\r\ndozens of ransomware-related publications each year. These reports provide analysis on specific malware families\r\nor new samples, describe the activities of a particular ransomware group, give general tips on how to prevent\r\nransomware from working, and so on. Malware analysts and security professionals can learn a lot from these\r\nreports, but not much of the content has an immediate or practical use. With the release of the report Common\r\nTTPs of modern ransomware, Kaspersky experts have taken a different approach. We want to familiarize the\r\nreader with the different stages of ransomware deployment, how cybercriminals use RATs and other tools across\r\nthe various stages and what they aim to achieve. The report also provides a visual guide to defending against\r\ntargeted ransomware attacks, using the most prolific groups as examples, and introduces the reader to the SIGMA\r\ndetection rules that we created.\r\nWhat are the ransomware groups?\r\nFor the report we selected the eight most common ransomware groups:\r\n1. 1 Conti/Ryuk\r\n2. 2 Pysa\r\n3. 3 Clop (TA505)\r\n4. 4 Hive\r\n5. 5 Lockbit2.0\r\n6. 6 RagnarLocker\r\n7. 7 BlackByte\r\n8. 8 BlackCat\r\nWe analyzed in detail the attacks these groups perpetrated and employed techniques and tactics described in\r\nMITRE ATT\u0026CK to identify a large number of shared TTPs. By tracking all the groups and detecting their\r\nattacks, we saw that the core techniques remain the same throughout the cyber kill chain. The attack patterns\r\nrevealed are not accidental because this class of attack requires the hackers to go through certain stages, such as\r\npenetrating the corporate network or victim’s computer, delivering malware, further discovery, account hijacking,\r\ndeleting shadow copies, removing backups and, finally, achieving their objectives.\r\nhttps://securelist.com/modern-ransomware-groups-ttps/106824/\r\nPage 2 of 6\n\nTo highlight the common components and TTPs shared by the ransomware groups across different attack patterns,\r\nwe’ve created a common cyber kill chain diagram. It provides a visual representation of the techniques and tactics\r\nused by different ransomware operators.\r\nhttps://securelist.com/modern-ransomware-groups-ttps/106824/\r\nPage 3 of 6\n\nhttps://securelist.com/modern-ransomware-groups-ttps/106824/\r\nPage 4 of 6\n\nOnce the incident data relating to the ransomware groups has been collected, we can identify the TTPs\r\ncharacteristic of each of them and then superimpose these onto the shared cyber kill chain. The arrows indicate the\r\nsequence of specific techniques and the colours mark the individual groups that have been known to deploy these\r\ntechniques.\r\nWhom is the report for?\r\nThis report is written for SOC analysts, threat hunting teams, cyberthreat intelligence analysts, digital forensics\r\nspecialists and cybersecurity specialists that are involved in the incident response process and/or want to protect\r\nthe environment they are responsible for from targeted ransomware attacks. Our main goal is to help with\r\nunderstanding how ransomware groups generally operate and how to defend against their attacks.\r\nYou can use this report as a book of knowledge on the main techniques used by ransomware groups, for writing\r\nhunting rules and for auditing your security solutions.\r\nThe report contains\r\nTactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of eight modern ransomware groups: Conti/Ryuk, Pysa, Clop\r\n(TA505), Hive, Lockbit2.0, RagnarLocker, BlackByte, and BlackCat\r\nA description of how different groups share more than half of the common components and TTPs, with the\r\ncore attack stages being executed identically across groups\r\nA cyber kill chain diagram that combines the visible intersections and common elements of the selected\r\nransomware groups and makes it possible to predict the threat actors’ next steps\r\nA detailed analysis of each technique with examples of how they are being used by various groups and a\r\ncomprehensive list of mitigations\r\nSIGMA rules based on described TTPs that can be applied to SIEM solutions\r\nDownload the full version of the Common TTPs of modern ransomware report (English, PDF)\r\nhttps://securelist.com/modern-ransomware-groups-ttps/106824/\r\nPage 5 of 6\n\nLatest Posts\r\nLatest Webinars\r\nReports\r\nKaspersky researchers analyze updated CoolClient backdoor and new tools and scripts used in HoneyMyte (aka\r\nMustang Panda or Bronze President) APT campaigns, including three variants of a browser data stealer.\r\nKaspersky discloses a 2025 HoneyMyte (aka Mustang Panda or Bronze President) APT campaign, which uses a\r\nkernel-mode rootkit to deliver and protect a ToneShell backdoor.\r\nKaspersky GReAT experts analyze the Evasive Panda APT’s infection chain, including shellcode encrypted with\r\nDPAPI and RC5, as well as the MgBot implant.\r\nKaspersky expert describes new malicious tools employed by the Cloud Atlas APT, including implants of their\r\nsignature backdoors VBShower, VBCloud, PowerShower, and CloudAtlas.\r\nSource: https://securelist.com/modern-ransomware-groups-ttps/106824/\r\nhttps://securelist.com/modern-ransomware-groups-ttps/106824/\r\nPage 6 of 6",
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