Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CON1787323501)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Conti LLC's Ransomware and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Conti LLC Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Conti LLC breach identified under incident ID CON1787323501.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Conti LLC's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/conti-llc, the number of followers: 79, the industry type: Construction and the number of employees: 4 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 364 and after the incident was 126 with a difference of -238 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Conti LLC and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Conti Ransomware Attack", has drawn attention.
Conti ransomware is a high-speed, double-extortion threat deployed by human-operated attackers.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Domain controllers, Backup servers and Endpoints, and exposing Sensitive data (e.g., confidential files, SSNs).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified External Remote Services (T1133) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating attackers gain entry via exposed RDP, Phishing (T1566) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating initial Access via phishing, and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating vulnerable firewalls as initial access vector. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating psExec for remote command execution and User Execution (T1204) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating human-operated deployment of ransomware. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating anyDesk and RDP for persistent access and Domain Policy Modification (T1484) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating modify Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to relaunch attack. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating stolen credentials via Mimikatz for privilege escalation. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal (T1070) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating disable defenses like Windows Defender, Masquerading (T1036) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating use of legitimate tools (e.g., PsExec, Cobalt Strike), and Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating target security management consoles to disable protections. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating mimikatz to harvest credentials from memory. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Network Service Scanning (T1046) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating network scanners (Advanced Port Scanner, Angry IP Scanner), File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating tool Everything for rapid searches of sensitive files, and Remote System Discovery (T1018) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating identify critical systems (e.g., domain controllers). Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services (T1021) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating psExec and Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating stolen credentials for lateral movement. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating search for sensitive files (e.g., confidential, SSN). Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating cobalt Strike for remote command execution and Ingress Tool Transfer (T1105) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating use of legitimate tools for evasion. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating rClone and MEGA for automated data exfiltration and Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltrated to cloud storage. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (100%), supported by evidence indicating conti deploys ransomware to encrypt files, Inhibit System Recovery (T1490) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating online backups deleted or encrypted, and Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating backup sabotage and encryption of files. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Conti LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/conti-llc/incident/CON1787323501
- Conti LLC CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/conti-llc
- Conti LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/con1787323501-conti-ransomware-may-2020/
- Conti LLC CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/conti-llc/history
- Conti LLC CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/what-to-expect-when-youve-been-hit-with-conti-ransomware
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf