Ransomware Research

Anton-Artemon

Anton-Artemon was first discovered in February 2021 in enterprise cloud environments. Anton-Artemon is found in environments with a number of different names, including Anton, Artemon, AutoHello, etc. For a full list of all names, please see below.

Name

Anton-Artemon

 

First Seen

February 2021

Targeting

Behavior of Anton-Artemon

Anton-Artemon is known to target specific file types. Below are all known file types that Anton-Artemon is known to infect.

In some cases, ransomware will update the modified date, when it encrypts files. Anton-Artemon unknown the last modified date of the file it targets.

Details

Characteristics of Anton-Artemon

Suffixes

Some ransomware will change or append a suffix to the end of the file after they are encrypted, including changing the extension of a file. Here are some of the possible suffixes that Anton-Artemon ransomware is known to change.

Suffixes

Ransomware Notes

Not all ransomware leaves a note. However, some ransomware leaves the infected party instructions on what the user should do to get rid of the ransomware, or satisfy the ransom. This often involves transferring money, often bitcoin or another cryptocurrency to a designated wallet.

Below are the type(s) of notes, content, and typical locations where Elastio has found ransom notes from Anton-Artemon.

Type

File Name

Location

file

Artemon.txt

Desktop

Executables

These are the names of the executables that contain the undetonated ransomware payload for Anton-Artemon.

Executables

1.exe

External Pages

Ransomware often links to external pages such as payment pages, telegram contacts, etc. Below are some of the URLs Elastio has found to be associated with Anton-Artemon.

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