EKANS
Software · ATTACK:ics:S0605
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{
"id": "ATTACK:ics:S0605",
"title": "EKANS",
"type": "Software",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0605",
"snapshot": "ics-attack-20.0.json",
"status": "active",
"rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
"review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
"stix_id": "malware--00e7d565-9883-4ee5-b642-8fd17fd6a3f5",
"external_id": "S0605",
"domain": "ics",
"created": "2021-02-12T20:07:42.883Z",
"modified": "2025-04-16T20:37:51.908Z",
"version": "2.0",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "EKANS"
},
{
"source_name": "SNAKEHOSE"
},
{
"source_name": "Dragos EKANS",
"url": "https://www.dragos.com/blog/industry-news/ekans-ransomware-and-ics-operations/"
},
{
"source_name": "Palo Alto Unit 42 EKANS",
"url": "https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/threat-assessment-ekans-ransomware/"
},
{
"source_name": "FireEye Ransomware Feb 2020",
"url": "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/02/ransomware-against-machine-learning-to-disrupt-industrial-production.html"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (4)
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ATTACK:ics:S0605 → uses → ATTACK:ics:T0881
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--11e4eb54-b0b3-4f67-a93f-28cc10df00ab
Ben Hunter and Fred Gutierrez July 2020 · Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Keith Lunden, Nathan Brubaker, Jeremy Kennelly July 2020ATTACK:ics:S0605 → uses → ATTACK:ics:T0840
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--1dc35f79-0ada-4342-bd13-10d10c1b0335
Ben Hunter and Fred Gutierrez July 2020ATTACK:ics:S0605 → uses → ATTACK:ics:T0828
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a6519c11-e9d4-4b6f-8d92-8efaa2144c28
Davey Winder June 2020ATTACK:ics:S0605 → uses → ATTACK:ics:T0849
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--c347b69c-e3f6-4eca-ba57-0781c7dc8eac
Dragos Threat Intelligence February 2020