Ransom.Sekhmet
Short bio
Ransom.Sekhmet is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a family of ransomware that is also known as Egregor after one of its variants.
Symptoms
Victims will find the ransome note named: “RECOVER-FILES.txt“.
Type and source of infection
Ransom.Maze is ransomware. Ransomware in general makes files on the victims system unusable until the ransom is paid. Ransom.Sekhmet not only encrypts a victims files, but also threatens to publish them. Egregor uses an affiliate program, the so-called Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model which means that each criminal who uses it can decide how to infect the intended victims.
Aftermath
According to the ransom note, if the ransom is not paid by the company within 3 days then, aside from leaking part of the stolen data, the operators will publish in the media about the breach so the company’s partners and clients will know that the company was succesfully attacked.
Protection
Malwarebytes blocks Ransom.Sekhmet
Home remediation
Malwarebytes can detect and remove Ransom.Sekhmet without further user interaction.
- Please download Malwarebytes to your desktop.
- Double-click MBSetup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
- When your Malwarebytes for Windows installation completes, the program opens to the Welcome to Malwarebytes screen.
- Click on the Get started button.
- Click Scan to start a Threat Scan.
- Click Quarantine to remove the found threats.
- Reboot the system if prompted to complete the removal process.
Take note, however, that removing this ransomware does not decrypt your files. You can only get your files back from backups you made before the infection happened.
Business remediation
How to remove Ransom.Sekhmet with the Malwarebytes Nebula console
You can use the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Nebula console to scan endpoints.
Nebula endpoint tasks menu
Choose the Scan + Quarantine option. Afterwards you can check the Detections page to see which threats were found.
On the Quarantine page you can see which threats were quarantined and restore them if necessary.
All component/technology detections are passed to the remediation engine for complete removal from infected systems. This industry leading technology uses patented techniques in identifying all cohorts or associated files for a single threat and removes them all together to prevent malware from resuscitating itself. If you are using Malwarebytes Ransomware Rollback technology, it allows you to wind back the clock to negate the impact of ransomware by leveraging just-in-time backups.
Traces/IOCs
SHA256 hashes: 4c9e3ffda0e663217638e6192a093bbc23cd9ebfbdf6d2fc683f331beaee0321 aee131ba1bfc4b6fa1961a7336e43d667086ebd2c7ff81029e14b2bf47d9f3a7
Tor Onion URLs: egregor.top egregorwiki.top wikiegregor.top sekhmet.top sekhmetleaks.top
C&C servers: 185.82.126.8*
