Shifting the sands of RansomHub’s EDRKillShifter

2025-03-26 ESET

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/shifting-sands-ransomhub-edrkillshifter/

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ESET profiles RansomHub as the dominant ransomware-as-a-service group that rose after law-enforcement disruption of LockBit and BlackCat. The research links RansomHub activity to tooling trails associated with Play, Medusa, and BianLian affiliates and documents EDRKillShifter, a custom EDR-killer component used by RansomHub affiliates. EDRKillShifter uses a builder-generated 64-character password that protects each encryptor and blocks researchers from retrieving targeted process names or the abused vulnerable driver without the affiliate-specific password. The excerpt does not make a DPRK connection, so it should be handled as ransomware ecosystem context rather than North Korea attribution.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH ce237f318df33dc32e9048ef19b091a… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
HASH f982dfc0a0984f317460ca6d27d72ad… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
URL https://ransomxifxwc5eteopdobyn… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
URL http://ubfofxonwdb32wpcmgmcpfos… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
URL http://ransomxifxwc5eteopdobyno… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
DOMAIN ransomxifxwc5eteopdobynonjctkxx… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
DOMAIN ubfofxonwdb32wpcmgmcpfos5tdskfi… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
DOMAIN ransomxifxwc5eteopdobynonjctkxx… 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 45.32.210.151 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 92.243.64.200 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 45.32.206.169 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 1.2.0.1 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 149.154.158.222 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 130.185.75.198 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 2.6.0.1 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 79.124.58.130 2025-03-26 2025-03-26
IPv4 1.6.0.1 2025-03-26 2025-03-26

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