It seems like every week, the cybersecurity landscape sees the emergence of yet another ransomware variant, with Black Hunt being one of the latest additions. Initially reported by cybersecurity researchers in 2022, this new threat has quickly made its presence known. In a recent incident, Black Hunt ransomware wreaked havoc by compromising around 300 companies in Paraguay. Rapid7 Labs consistently monitors emerging threats, and this new ransomware variant caught our attention for several reasons. The behavior and potential impact of this new variant raised concerns among our team, prompting us to conduct a thorough analysis to better understand its capabilities and potential risks. During our analysis we found notable similarities between Black Hunt ransomware and LockBit, which suggested that it uses leaked code of Lockbit. In addition, it uses some techniques similar to REvil ransomware. Technical Analysis In this analysis we examined the Black Hunt sample shared on X (formerly Twitter), by MalwareHunterTeam. In our investigation we found some interesting techniques and features used by this malware. The recent Black Hunt sample is a C++ executable, which widely reuses the leaked Lockbit ransomware code and shares similarities with several other recently spotted ransomware families.The execution of the ransomware on an infected machine starts with a check for a file named Vaccine.txt under directory C:ProgramData path Figure 1 – Check for the existence of Vaccine.txt…Read More