Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (UNK1789122454)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Unknown Cyber Inc'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 Unknown Cyber Inc 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 Unknown Cyber Inc breach identified under incident ID UNK1789122454.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Unknown Cyber Inc's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unknowncyber, the number of followers: 318, the industry type: Computer and Network Security and the number of employees: 6 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 446 and after the incident was 272 with a difference of -174 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 Unknown Cyber Inc and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "New SloppyRAT Malware Leverages ClickFix Lures for Ransomware Operations", has drawn attention.
Researchers at Zscaler have uncovered SloppyRAT, a remote access tool (RAT) designed to facilitate ransomware attacks by enabling deeper network infiltration.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Windows systems with finger.exe enabled, User-writable directories, and exposing System intelligence (machines, processes, services, local accounts), Potential data exfiltration.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing (malware still under development), teams are taking away lessons such as Importance of monitoring outdated protocols (finger.exe), Renamed legitimate utilities (curl.exe), Python-based execution in user directories, In-memory malware techniques for evasion, and recommending next steps like Monitor for unusual finger.exe traffic, renamed curl.exe instances, and suspicious Python activity. Disable or restrict finger.exe protocol. Implement behavioral monitoring for indirect system calls and certificate pinning. Enhance detection for reflective DLL loading and in-memory execution.
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 Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating clickFix social-engineering tactic tricks users into executing malicious commands and User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating clickFix lures prompt victims to run a command exploiting finger.exe. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell (T1059.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating command retrieves batch script exploiting finger.exe to download payloads, Command and Scripting Interpreter: Python (T1059.006) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ironPython executes obfuscated, Base64-encoded code for payload delivery, and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating victims execute malicious commands via ClickFix lures. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (T1547.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating run registry entries used for persistence (flawed due to coding errors) and Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking (T1546.015) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cOM hijacking attempted for persistence (flawed implementation). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Process Injection: Dynamic-link Library Injection (T1055.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating sloppyRAT loaded reflectively into memory as a DLL to reduce disk artifacts and Process Injection: Process Hollowing (T1055.012) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating falls back to spoofed explorer.exe processes when in-memory execution fails. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating runtime code decryption and Base64-encoded Python scripts to hide payloads, Masquerading: Rename System Utilities (T1036.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating curl.exe copied to user profile under numeric .com filename to evade detection, Indicator Removal: Clear Windows Event Logs (T1070.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating minimizes forensic traces via in-memory loading and indirect system calls, Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating disables Microsoft Defender and alters security settings, Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (T1140) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating base64-encoded Python code executed via IronPython, Process Injection: Dynamic-link Library Injection (T1055.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating sloppyRAT loaded reflectively into memory to evade disk-based detection, and System Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32 (T1218.011) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potential abuse of legitimate Windows utilities for execution. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory (T1003.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating reconnaissance includes inventorying local accounts (potential credential access). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery: Local Account (T1087.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating sloppyRAT inventories local accounts as part of reconnaissance, System Information Discovery (T1082) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating inventorying machines, processes, and services for network intelligence, Network Service Discovery (T1046) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating lateral movement via reverse SOCKS proxy to pivot across devices, Process Discovery (T1057) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating sloppyRAT inventories processes as part of reconnaissance, and System Service Discovery (T1007) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating sloppyRAT inventories services for network intelligence. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol (T1021.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating reverse SOCKS proxy enables lateral movement from trusted endpoints, Proxy: External Proxy (T1090.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating reverse SOCKS proxy established for network pivoting, and Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating lateral movement via trusted endpoints and network infiltration. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating c2 domains (api.telephoneip.net, api.truesmart.org) and HTTPS traffic, Proxy: Multi-hop Proxy (T1090.003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating reverse SOCKS proxy for lateral movement and C2 resilience, Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography (T1573.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating certificate pinning prevents interception of encrypted C2 traffic, and Ingress Tool Transfer (T1105) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating payloads downloaded via curl.exe and hosted on Azure Blob Storage/AWS S3. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potential data exfiltration via encrypted C2 traffic (not confirmed). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating delayed ransomware encryption prioritized after lateral movement. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Unknown Cyber Inc Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/unknowncyber/incident/UNK1789122454
- Unknown Cyber Inc CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/unknowncyber
- Unknown Cyber Inc Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/unk1789122454-unknown-victim-organizations-ransomware-june-2026/
- Unknown Cyber Inc CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/unknowncyber/history
- Unknown Cyber Inc CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-deploy-new-sloppyrat/
- 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