PULSE NAME
When Threat Actors Fly Under the Radar: Vatet, PyXie, and Defray777
WHITE AlienVault 2020-11-10 Modified: 2020-12-09
169
IOCs
HIGH VOLUME
We first noticed that there may be a relationship between the Vatet loader, PyXie Remote Access Tool (RAT) and Defray777 ransomware when there were remnants and/or detections of all three in various Incident Response and Managed Threat Hunting engagements. After digging deep into each malware family, it became apparent that Vatet, PyXie and Defray777 are all associated with the same financially motivated threat group that has been operating since as early as 2018. That threat group, sometimes referred to as PyXie by BlackBerry Cylance and GOLD DUPONT by SecureWorks, has been actively conducting successful ransomware operations that have impacted organizations in a number of sectors including healthcare, education, government and technology while remaining under the radar.
MITRE ATT&CK & Malware Families
ATT&CK TECHNIQUES
MALWARE FAMILIES
PyXie RAT Backdoor:Win32/Vatet Trojan:Win32/Vatet Defray777 Ransomware Cobalt Strike - S0154 IcedID TrickBot - S0266
Indicators of Compromise (42 / 169 total)
All FileHash-SHA256 FileHash-MD5 FileHash-SHA1 domain hostname
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
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