Ransomware Research
About CatB
CatB
CatB was first discovered in November 2022 in enterprise cloud environments. CatB is found in environments with a number of different names, including FishA, CatFish, FishCat, Fish-Cat, FishA-CatB, etc. For a full list of all names, please see below.
| Name | CatB |
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| First Seen | November 2022 |
Targeting
Behavior of CatB
CatB is known to target specific file types. Below are all known file types that CatB is known to infect.
In some cases, ransomware will update the modified date, when it encrypts files. CatB updates the last modified date of the file it targets.
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Characteristics of CatB
Here are some of the unique characteristics that are helpful to know about CatB.
Executables
These are the names of the executables that contain the undetonated ransomware payload for CatB.
| Executables | svchosts.exe, Catb-35a273df61f4506cdb286ecc40415efaa5797379b16d44c240e3ca44714f945b.dll, 1.dll, oci.dll, svchosts |
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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 CatB.
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